Hi all,

Can anyone provide help with getting the right syntax regarding array/pointers in C in the following code? Can't locate a specific example which clarifies this...

Say I declare a typedef to an array of pointers to some type...

Code:

/**
* An array of ptrs to sections
*/
typedef section_t* region_t[SECTION_LENGTH];

So now a "region_t" is an array of pointers to "section_t", "SECTION_LENGTH" long.
And now I declare a struct which contains an array of these...

Code:

typedef struct container
{
    region_t regions[N_THREADS];
}container_t;

And I have a static instance of the container type...

Code:

static container_t ctn;

In the same file as the ctn variable. I have a function which needs to access these region arrays...

Code:

region_t region = ctn.regions[nth];

But the compiler complains of an "invalid initializer". But this array would have been initialised being a member of a static variable. I don't want to initialise it, just access it. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong here and how, if possible to declare a variable that access the elements of "region" like a regular array variable, i.e...

Code:

  region[i]->section_t_data_member = x;

Any help much appreciated. As I say, couldn't find an example which clarifies this.