Malloc compile error: a value of type “int” cannot be used to initialize an entity of type int (*)[30]

Question

I must have tried 20 ways of doing this by now. I really need help, no matter what I do i get a error similar to this one.

a value of type \"int\" cannot be          


        

Answer 1

To allocate the array:

int *array = malloc(sizeof(int) * 160 * 10);

Then use code like:

array[10 * row + column] = value;

(Where row goes from 0 to 159 inclusive and column goes from 0 to 9 inclusive.)