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what's the return value of malloc()

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Re: what's the return value of malloc()

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If there is memory avaliablity in the system.. 
Then fisrt address of the memory allocated in returned. 
Else NULL/Garbage value is returned.

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Vrushali

Re: what's the return value of malloc()

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# 2

garbage
but calloc returns zero

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Himanshu

Re: what's the return value of malloc()

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# 3

malloc() returns pointer to void. That is, pointer to the
first memory location of the allocated memory block. The
pointer type is unknown at this point, hence typecasting is
done later.

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Ravi A Joshi

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malloc returns a pointer to the allocated space if required
memory is found, else, a null pointer is returned and
'errno' is set to indicate the error.

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Shashidhar Murthy

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malloc returns a pointer to the allocated space if required 
memory is available otherwise it will return a null pointer.

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Sourisengupta

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malloc is a pointer  it is used to allocate memory

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Tamil

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void

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Ruchi

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malloc returns void pointer to allocated memory location.
it is also called generic pointer

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Monu Verma

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