[GRASS-dev] Vect_read_line -> ERROR: G_calloc

[Glynn Clements]

"ifj. Stefán István" wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to open a vector map with the Grass 6 API, but when I try to
> read from the map, I get the following error message:
> 
> ERROR: G_calloc: unable to allocate 1861156242 * 4 bytes at
>        allocation.c:144

>         struct line_pnts line_p;
>         struct line_cats line_c;
>         Vect_read_line(&Map, &line_p, &line_c,1);

> What am'I doing wrong?

You aren't initialising the structures.

The above lines should be e.g.:

    struct line_pnts *Points = Vect_new_line_struct();
    struct line_cats *Cats = Vect_new_cats_struct();
    Vect_read_line(&Map, line_p, line_c, 1);

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>