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What is malloc?
malloc is a function used to reserve a specific amount of memory during the execution of a program. When called, it allocates a block of memory of a requested size in bytes on the heap and returns a pointer to the first byte of that block. If the system cannot provide the requested memory, the function returns a null pointer to indicate that the allocation failed.
Free resources to learn malloc
- ArticleC Allocate Memory
- ArticleC library - malloc() function
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Is this malloc tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 68 of 141 in the free C Programming roadmap, in stage 13, Structuring Codebase. If you are new to C Programming, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.