Question

here is example how Pointers are used to store and manage the addresses of dynamically allocated blocks of memory

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
struct Item{
    int id;
    char* name;
    float cost;
    };
   struct Item*make_item(const char *name){
        struct Item *item;
        item=malloc(sizeof(struct Item));
        if (item==NULL)
             return NULL;
        memset(item,0,sizeof(struct Item));
        item->id=-1;
        item->name=NULL;
        item->cost=0.0;

         /* Save a copy of the name in the new Item */
        item->name=malloc(strlen(name)+1);
        if (item->name=NULL){
            free(item);
            return NULL;
        }

        strcpy(item->name,name);
         return item;

        }

int main(){



     return 0;
}

but here is mistakes

1

>------ Build started: Project: dynamic_memory, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  dynamic_memory.cpp
1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\dynamic_memory\dynamic_memory.cpp(11): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'void *' to 'Item *'
1>          Conversion from 'void*' to pointer to non-'void' requires an explicit cast
1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\dynamic_memory\dynamic_memory.cpp(20): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'void *' to 'char *'
1>          Conversion from 'void*' to pointer to non-'void' requires an explicit cast
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

what is wrong?please help

Answer 1

At row 11
item=malloc(sizeof(struct Item));
must become
item=(Item *)malloc(sizeof(struct Item));

At row 20
item->name=malloc(strlen(name)+1);
must become
item->name=(char *)malloc(strlen(name)+1);

At row 21
if (item->name=NULL){
must become
if (item->name==NULL){.