Question

Hi Im currently building an iPad app. I was using the memset() as below but every tine it runs I get a bad access error?

 arrayPointer = malloc(sizeof(int) * size);
memset(arrayPointer, 0, sizeof(int)* size); //sets all the values in the array to 0

Cheers

Answer 1

You could use calloc() it basically does the same as malloc() but also sets all bits to 0 in the allocated memory. It is also suited well for array initializations. For your example:

arrayPointer = calloc(sizeof(int), size);

EDIT: You should consider inspecting the returned pointer. NULL will be returned, when your memory allocation was erroneous.