Error: Conversion to non-scalar type requested

Question

I\'m having a small problem trying to malloc this struct. Here is the code for the structure:

typedef struct stats {                  
    int strength;                  


        

Answer 1

The memory assigned by malloc must be stored in a pointer to an object, not in the object itself:

dungeon *d1 = malloc(sizeof(dungeon));

Answer 2

malloc returns a pointer, so probably what you want is the following:

dungeon* d1 = malloc(sizeof(dungeon));

Here is what malloc looks like:

void *malloc( size_t size );

As you can see it return void*, however you shouldn't cast the return value.

Answer 3

You can't cast anything to a structure type. What I presume you meant to write is:

dungeon *d1 = (dungeon *)malloc(sizeof(dungeon));

But please don't cast the return value of malloc() in a C program.

dungeon *d1 = malloc(sizeof(dungeon));

Will work just fine and won't hide #include bugs from you.