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Dynamic Memory Allocation in C
In C, you give fixes sizes for arrays at compile time .... which means you either have to know ahead of time how big something will be, or allow enough space for the worst case scenario. Rather than using arrays, you can use pointers to the memory heap - and in this way you can use functions to give you dynamic memory allocation: malloc - allocate a specific memory block calloc - allocate an array of specific memory blocks realloc - expand or contract a calloced block free - release a malloced block cfree - release a realloced block There's an example showing how these functions can be used to dynamically load a file with a variable number of variable length records here (written 2008-06-09 15:13:09) Associated topics are indexed under C212 - C and C based languages - Memory Management
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