Hello. I have a concept to dynamic allocate an array of pointers but so
far I have not been able to implement it in C. The purpose of this array
is to reference a list of a given data type. This is similar to linked
list but instead moving up and down the list you may simply access a
given element through an array pointer.

Example - A list of variable length strings.

array of pointers to list
---------
| 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 |    <- address values
---------

array of data

  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     addresses
-----------------------
| A | B | 0 | C | D | 0 | E | F | G | 0 |
-----------------------

So how can this be done in C? Below are a few of my attempts but they
don't compile correctly.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#define STRING_SIZE 4
#define STRINGS 4

int main()

        char i;
        int h,g;

        void *pointers;
        char *data;

        pointers = malloc(sizeof(pointers) * STRINGS);
        data = malloc(STRING_SIZE * STRINGS);

        /* Given data some data */
        for(i = 'A'; i <= 'Q'; i++)
        {
                data[i] = i;
        }

/* Assign the address of every 4th element in data to pointers */
for(h = 0, g = 0; h <= STRING_SIZE * STRINGS; h =+ 4, g++)
{

        /* This is the part I'm stuck on. What I want is to copy the
address of a data array element to the array of pointers but I can't get
a correct syntax.

        is it

        pointers[g] = &data[h];

        or

        *(pointers + g) = (void *) &data[h] ;

        These all gave me errors. Does any one know how to do this?

      */

        free(pointers);
        free(data);

        return 0;