[Courses] [C] Lesson12: Exercise answers

Luis M Ibarra mibarra at ximian.com
Thu Nov 21 19:27:01 EST 2002


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:20, Eugene Teo wrote:
> > 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,

I stand corrected. 

Sorry for the misinformation (it's alloca the function which allocs in
the stack).

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Luis M Ibarra <mibarra at ximian.com>
Ximian



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