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Message: [QUOTE="Sam, post: 3638793"] Hi there. I hope this code is standard C. I think it is. Anyway, I haven't used C in a Looooooong time and am a little rusty on pointers. I am wondering why "buff" is a pointer to a pointer instead of just "*buff". I'm also not really sure about the language of pointers. Is it correct to say "pointer to a pointer to buff" or "double pointer to buff" or what? If you can help me with this, you have my thanks... REM --- *Code Below* --- void LoadFileIntoMemory(const char *name, void **buff, int *length) { FILE *fp = fopen(name, "rb"); fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END); *length = ftell(fp); fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET); *buff = malloc(*length); fread(*buff, *length, 1, fp); fclose(fp); } REM --- *End Code* --- [/QUOTE]