Access violation when trying to populate an array of struct - c

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Original code comment specifying the core question:
The error I am getting is while iterating through the while loop,
memory out of range or something... resizing to 300 ... Access
violation writing location that's the exact Fraze...
I'm trying to implement a faster .Net List<T> equivalent in C.
I'm using blittable data types in C#.
In the code below I've moved a function body to the main function just for testing after I have failed to understand where am I wrong.
The problem seems to be that inside the while loop UntArr does not increment.
What am I doing wrong?
typedef struct {
int Id;
char *StrVal;
}Unit; // a data unit as element of an array
unsigned int startTimer(unsigned int start);
unsigned int stopTimer(unsigned int start);
int main(){
Unit *UntArr= {NULL};
//Unit test[30000];
//decelerations comes first..
char *dummyStringDataObject;
int adummyNum,requestedMasterArrLength,requestedStringSize,MasterDataArrObjectMemorySize,elmsz;
int TestsTotalRounds, TestRoundsCounter,ccountr;
unsigned int start, stop, mar;
//Data Settings (manually for now)
requestedMasterArrLength=300;
requestedStringSize = 15;
//timings
start=0;stop=0;
//data sizes varies (x86/x64) compilation according to fastest results
MasterDataArrObjectMemorySize = sizeof(UntArr);
elmsz= sizeof(UntArr[0]);
TestRoundsCounter=-1;
start = startTimer(start);
while(++TestRoundsCounter<requestedMasterArrLength){
int count;
count=-1;
//allocate memory for the "Master Arr"
UntArr = (Unit *)malloc(sizeof(Unit)*requestedMasterArrLength);
dummyStringDataObject = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*requestedStringSize);
dummyStringDataObject = "abcdefgHijkLmNo";
while (++count<requestedMasterArrLength)
{
dummyStringDataObject[requestedStringSize-1]=count+'0';
puts(dummyStringDataObject);
ccountr=-1;
// tried
UntArr[count].Id = count;
UntArr[count].StrVal = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*requestedStringSize);
UntArr[count].StrVal = dummyStringDataObject;// as a whole
//while(++ccountr<15)// one by one cause a whole won't work ?
//UntArr[count].StrVal[ccountr] = dummyStringDataObject[ccountr];
}
free(UntArr);free(dummyStringDataObject);
}
stop = startTimer(start);
mar = stop - start;
MasterDataArrObjectMemorySize = sizeof(UntArr)/1024;
printf("Time taken in millisecond: %d ( %d sec)\r\n size: %d kb\r\n", mar,(mar/1000),MasterDataArrObjectMemorySize);
printf("UntArr.StrVal: %s",UntArr[7].StrVal);
getchar();
return 0;
}
unsigned int startTimer(unsigned int start){
start = clock();
return start;
}
unsigned int stopTimer(unsigned int start){
start = clock()-start;
return start;
}
testing the code one by one instead of within a while loop work as expected
//allocate memory for the "Master Arr"
UntArr = (Unit *)malloc(sizeof(Unit)*requestedMasterArrLength);
UntArr[0].Id = 0;
dummyStringDataObject = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*requestedStringSize);
dummyStringDataObject = "abcdefgHijkLmNo";
////allocate memory for the string object
UntArr[0].StrVal = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*requestedStringSize);
////test string manipulation
adummyNum=5;
UntArr[0].StrVal= dummyStringDataObject;
//
UntArr[0].StrVal[14] = adummyNum+'0';
////test is fine

Answer 1

as it happens and as i am new to pointers i have not realize that when debugging
i will not see the elements of given pointer to an array as i am used to
with normal Array[] but looping through result which i did not even try as when i was hovering above the Array* within the while loop expecting to see the elements as in a normal array:
Data[] DataArr = new Data[1000] <- i have expected to actually see the body of the array while looping and populating the Data* and did not realize it is not an actual array but a pointer to one so you can not see the elements/body.
the solution is via a function now as planed originally :
void dodata(int requestedMasterArrLength,int requestedStringSize){
int ccountr,count;
count=0;
UntArr=NULL;
UntArr = (Unit *)malloc(sizeof(Unit)*requestedMasterArrLength);
while(count!=requestedMasterArrLength)
{
char dummyStringDataObject[]= "abcdefgHi";
UntArr[count].StrVal=NULL;
dummyStringDataObject[requestedStringSize-1] = count+'0';
UntArr[count].Id= count;
ccountr=0;
UntArr[count].StrVal= (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*requestedStringSize);
while(ccountr!=requestedStringSize){
UntArr[count].StrVal[ccountr] = dummyStringDataObject[ccountr];
++ccountr;
}
++count;
}
}
generaly speaking, x86 compilation would get better performance for this current task , populating an array of a struct.
so i have compiled it also in c++ and c#.
executing similar code in C# and C++
minimum time measured in c# ~ 3,100 ms.
minimum time measured in this code - C ~ 1700 ms.
minimum time measured in C++ ~ 900 ms.
i was surprised to see this last result c++ is the winner but why.
i thought c is closer to the system level, CPU, Memory...