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• Sep 20th, 2012

 

Memory allocated is in some other format

sourav punoriyar

 Profile Answers by sourav punoriyar 

• Sep 5th, 2013

 

as malloc returns the base address to a pointer.which can be typecasted.(of type void)...

so firstly the memory allocated is sequentially as per the size of datatype used like int,char,etc...

ex: (int *)a=(int *)malloc(4*sizeof(int));

let the base address be sent to a be=1000;

so next location will be a+4,a+8,a+16..as the size in vytes given by malloc is 4*sizeof(int)=16,gcc compiler int is of 4 bytes.....

this not same as relloc...realloc may return different base address....