Best practice: arrays of structures

[Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm>]

Hi all,

What is the best practice for handling arrays of structures? Do you define
an array of pointers to structures, or just an array of structures? Or
does it matter?

In other words this:

    ps->dirconn = apr_array_make(p, 10, sizeof(struct dirconn_entry));

or this:

    ps->dirconn = apr_array_make(p, 10, sizeof(struct dirconn_entry *));

Regards,
Graham
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Re: Best practice: arrays of structures

[Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>]

Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What is the best practice for handling arrays of structures? Do you define
> an array of pointers to structures, or just an array of structures? Or
> does it matter?

Depends whether its sparse. For spares, the latter solution is better.

> 
> In other words this:
> 
>     ps->dirconn = apr_array_make(p, 10, sizeof(struct dirconn_entry));
> 
> or this:
> 
>     ps->dirconn = apr_array_make(p, 10, sizeof(struct dirconn_entry *));
> 
> Regards,
> Graham
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> 
> 


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