Cant allocate memory using MALLOC

Question

Can anyone help me as what is going wrong here? Am not able to allocate memory using malloc...

    bReadFile = ReadFile( hConsoleFile, &ReadFileBuffer, MaxCharToRead, &CharsRead, NULL );

Answer 1

You have &ReadFileBuffer in the call to ReadFile. You are supposed to pass ReadFile a pointer to the buffer, not a pointer to a pointer to the buffer.

From the documentation:

lpBuffer [out]
    A pointer to the buffer that receives the data read from a file or device.

Since ReadFileBuffer is a pointer to the buffer, that's what you should be passing.