what does " calloc" do?

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / guest

A memory allocation and initialising to zero.

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / shubham bajpai

CALLOC FUNCTION DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATES MEMORY IN FORM OF BLOCKS(CONSECUTIVE) & INITIALIZES ALL BLOCKS TO 0.

CALLOC FUNCTION REQUIRES 2 ARGUMENTS IN ITS CALLING.

EXAMPLE:

PTR=(INT *)CALLOC(SIZEOF(INT),N);

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / shruti

the calloc function will allocate memory , and also
initialise the variables to a particular value..

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / debu

This function allocates multiple blocks of memory of same
size, initializes all locations to zero and returns a
pointer to the first byte of allocated space.

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / rani

a memory allocation for the multiple blocks i.e array of
blocks and intialising the first block to zero.

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / srinivas

Allocate memory where ever it is free and that to it is in
terms of block and initialises that block to zero.

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what does " calloc" do?..

Answer / anjana devi

calloc will reallocate the memeory created by malloc

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