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Article #1168Re: malloc causes a segmentation violation!?
From: Naatula Mika
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:49
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:49
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In article <chuckb.714275722@milton> chuckb@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuck Bass) writes:
> I am wondering if this is common among people who program in C.
> I haven't been programing in multiple environments (TurboC and
> an SGI workstation only). I write code that runs on both and
> do *lots* of dynamic memory allocation. Is this a bad habit,
> terrible habit, good habit? It seems to me that a general
> program should be able to adjust to the required size
> dynamically.
Usually a program must be able to to change dynamically the required
data size. The idea was NOT to make data allocation static but to make
dynamic allocation safer. That's why you should not call malloc
directly.
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