Re: Memory allocation with malloc
On 16 Nov., 00:27, PSN <prakash...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
int main()
{
char *pChar;
pChar = (char *)malloc(16);
memcpy(pChar, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", 16);
printf ("***%s***\n", pChar);
realloc(pChar, 28);
memcpy(pChar, "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB", 28);
printf ("***%s***\n", pChar);
free(pChar);
return 0;
}
Can someone please explain me why does this crash. what am i doing
wrong ??
Can you explain why you use malloc when you have the opportunity to
use std::string or std::vector (assuming you program in C++ as you
would otherwise be off-topic)?
realloc often allocates a new buffer, copies the content and frees the
old buffer - e.g.
void* realloc(void* ptr,size_t new_size)
{
void* new_area = malloc(new_size);
memcpy(new_area,ptr,size_allocated(ptr)); // size_allocated is not
an official function
free(ptr);
return new_area;
}
And you forget to update pChar with the result of the realloc call.
/Peter
Thank you for youri time
Prakash
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