[ODE] Help using ODE with DirectX

[Duncan Frostick]

I'm sorry to be such a clueless undergrad trying to grasp pointers, but 
I'm still confused :)

Surely 'dVector3* verticesODE; verticesODE = (dVector3*) 
malloc(sizeof(dVector3)*numVertices);' means I'm allocating enough space 
for however many vertices I need, and that I can then use the pointer 
that is returned by malloc as an array of that size, i.e. 
verticesODE[numVertices] is the end of the allocated space? And each 
element of that array is a dVector3 waiting to be given some value? If 
not, how can I do this? I've been trying '*(verticesODE)[0] = 
verticesDX[i]._x;'...'*verticesODE++' to no avail too.

My debugger doesn't work because of various windows crashes messing it 
up, and me not being able to reinstall VS because the CDs are in another 
city because they belong to the uni... which is annoying.

Sorry to be a pain but the book I have isn't helping, and neither is 
google :/

Cheers for your time, Duncan