Question

How do I allocate memory for a char variable (not a char pointer) inside a struct?
(Variable names are in portuguese, sorry if it’s kinda confusing)

I have this struct:

typedef struct node{
    char rotulo[10], instrucao[1][2][10], flag;
    int simplificado;

    struct node *referencias[2];
    struct node **antecessores;
    int nrAntecessores;

    struct node *ant;
    struct node *prox;
} Estado;

And this is function insere() that sets values read from an input file in a new node:

void Insere(char *rotulo, char instrucao[][2][10], int qtdInstrucao, char flag){
    int i,j;
    Estado *NovoEstado;
    NovoEstado = (Estado*)malloc(sizeof(Estado));
    NovoEstado->prox = NULL;
    NovoEstado->ant = P->ult;
    strcpy(NovoEstado->rotulo, rotulo);
    NovoEstado->flag = flag;
    NovoEstado->antecessores = NULL;
    NovoEstado->nrAntecessores = 0;
    NovoEstado->simplificado = 0;

    for(i=0;i<qtdInstrucao;i++){
        realloc(NovoEstado->instrucao, i+1*sizeof(char[2][10]));
        strcpy(NovoEstado->instrucao[i][0], instrucao[i][0]);
        strcpy(NovoEstado->instrucao[i][1], instrucao[i][1]);
    }
}

This NovoEstado->flag = flag; isn’t working…
Right after I set it, if I print NovoEstado->flag i get the right value, but if I put it after that for by the end of the function, when I print NovoEstado->flag I get the first char of NovoEstado->rotulo…
The same happens when I try to print flag in main()…

I figure that’s because I’m not properly allocating memory space to flag in Insere(), is that right? And how do I fix it?

I’m pretty sure it’s an awful easy question, and that I possibily knew this once, but I forgot and can’t find it anywhere… So any help would be very appreciated

EDIT

Following ocdecio’s tip I created a pointer to an two-dimensional array, in order to have a dinamic 3 dimensional array.
My goal is to have a “table” like this:

  10 chars | 10 chars  
|__________|__________|
|__________|__________|
|__________|__________|

Where the number of lines is dinamic, but it’s always an array of 2 strings of 10 chars.

So now this is what I’m doing in main:

    char estado[127], rotulo[10], strInstrucoes[117], *conjunto = calloc(21, sizeof(char)), flag;
    char (*instrucao)[2][10];

    FILE * entrada;
    Automato *Aut = (Automato*)malloc(sizeof(Automato));

    if((entrada = fopen(argv[1], "r")) != NULL){
        CriaAutomato(Aut);
        while(fgets(estado, 127, entrada)){
            flag = 0;
            sscanf(estado,"%[^:]: %[^;]; %c", rotulo, strInstrucoes, &flag);
            instrucao = calloc(1, sizeof(char[2][10]));
            conjunto = strtok(strInstrucoes,"() ");
            for(i = 0; conjunto != NULL; i++){
                realloc(instrucao, i+1*sizeof(char[2][10]));
                sscanf(conjunto,"%[^,],%s", instrucao[i][0], instrucao[i][1]);
                printf("%s || %d\n", instrucao[i][1], i);
                conjunto = strtok(NULL, "() ");
            }
            Insere(Aut, rotulo, instrucao, i, flag);
            free(instrucao);
        }
        fclose(entrada);

But this isn’t working…
This is the input read from file

adsasdfg2: (abc,123) (def,456) (ghi,789);

but even before I call Insere I’m not assigning the right values to instrucao the way I want, as this is the output of that printf

123
454
789

instead of what I’m aiming for

123
456
789

What’s wrong?

(before someone asks, this is part of a homework, but not the homework. My task is to make a Deterministic Finite Automata minimizer, this is just a bug I’m getting related to data input)

Thanks a whole lot

Answer 1

Your problem is likely to be in this line:

realloc(NovoEstado->instrucao, i+1*sizeof(char[2][10]));

There is no need to allocate anything inside your structure because the field instrucao is statically defined by the statement instrucao[1][2][10], it is not a dynamically allocated structure.