[Courses] [C] Lesson12: Exercise answers
Eugene Teo
eugene.teo at eugeneteo.net
Fri Nov 22 03:20:44 EST 2002
> Calloc is faster than malloc, but beware, they work quite different,
> malloc allocates memory from the heap, calloc allocates from the stack.
correction: both allocates memory from the heap, just that calloc
initialises the allocated memory with zeros. if you want to know why,
use extern _text, _data, and display allocated memory addresses, and
visualise the memory map.
Eugene
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main(i){putchar(182623909>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<7)<<6)&&main(++i);}
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