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| Reasons to use the heap and not the stack (2) |
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1) Long-lived data
2) We don't know what data will be coming in ahead of time |
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| What happens if we have a function that returns a pointer to something that was stored on the stack? |
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| What is in a stack frame? (3) |
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1) Parameters
2) Local variables
3) Return address |
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| malloc function signature |
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| void *malloc(size_t size); |
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| What happens if you try to access a variable that has already been freed? |
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| calloc function signature |
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| void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size); |
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| realloc function signature |
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| void *realloc(void *ptr, size_t size); |
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| How to check the return address of realloc |
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| some_ptr = realloc(some_ptr, size); |
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