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difference between malloc and calloc

Answer Posted / namita

1-memory allocated by malloc contains garbage value.But
memory allocated by calloc is initialised to zero.

2-malloc takes only one argument which indicates the size
to be allocated.But calloc takes two arguments.First
argument indicates the number of blocks to be allocated
where as the second argument indicates the size of the
block.

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