I need help with malloc() inside another function.. I'm passing a pointer and size to the function from my main() and I would like to allocate memory for that pointer dynamically using malloc() …

Jul 4, 2014 · If these are true, don't use malloc/free, but just use local auto variables which are allocated from the stack instead of the heap. For example, this is simpler and easier to …

Sep 21, 2015 · The Microsoft Visual C++ runtime includes an Alloc() function which is somewhat similar to malloc(), but this is also not part of the C standard. malloc() allocates memory on the …

Sep 16, 2013 · When one calls malloc, memory is taken from the large heap cell, which is returned by malloc. The rest is formed into a new heap cell that consists of all the rest of the …

Nov 24, 2009 · Use malloc() when you don't know the amount of memory needed during compile time. In case if you have read-only strings then you can use const char* str = "something"; . …

Nov 21, 2013 · Moreover malloc in the userspace (glibc) is not even a primitive because calls dlmalloc() which calls mmap() or brk().. After your post I tried to grep in the overall kernel and I …

Jul 26, 2017 · The malloc() function allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not initialized. If size is 0, then malloc() returns either NULL, or a …

malloc() returns a pointer to the allocated memory, so y must be a Vector pointer. In the second line you allocate memory for an array of 10 doubles. In the second line you allocate memory …

Jul 21, 2019 · malloc + memset in that means that you're needlessly zeroing it twice. Use malloc only when it is going to be initialized non-zero. – Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні

Oct 27, 2024 · Somehow, memory is being corrupted and any malloc gives me: malloc(): unaligned tcache chunk detected. I tried debugging it multiple times, but it gives me absolutely …