Calloc
The calloc function performs dynamic memory allocation in C, and is part of the standard library.
Free
Free is a function to deallocate memory obtained from malloc and other functions in C. Do not use this tag to refer to free software
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Malloc free is harder because thereâ s also calloc and realloc from question Does it matter for the free() and delete[] if allocation was done on stack or heap? |
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No need to initialise to null before malloc but any variable pointers that you later free should be set to null and only free if not null;also initialise pointer values in your structs to null easier to use calloc and get this automatically so your guards work properly from question Freeing memory in a function |
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Sometimes calloc is more preferable call in c as it protects on some platforms against overflow and remember to free from question Dynamically allocating an array of a struct |