Memory Allocation in C

The process of allocating memory during program execution is called dynamic memory allocation.the following table are displaying function taht used in dynamic memory allocation in c programming.

Sr.No	Functions	Descriptions
01	malloc	Allocates request size of bytes and returns a pointer to the first byte of the allocated space.
02	calloc	Allocates space for an array of elements,initializes them to zero and then returns a pointer to the memory.
03	free	Frees previously allocated space.
04	realloc	Modifies the size of previously allocated space.

Example Using Malloc


int *x;
x = (int*)malloc(50 * sizeof(int));
free(x);

Memory Allocation in C

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