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Assignment 19: Improve memory allocation #26

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Assignment-19/assignment19.c
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Expand Up @@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ int main (void)

//ptr is now the memory address of the beginning of this 10 char element array.
//we used the sizeof() function to make sure that the size of memory allocated is 10 units on any host
ptr = malloc(10 * sizeof(char));
ptr = calloc(10, sizeof(*ptr));

//if malloc fails, our ptr pointer will be pointing towards a NULL value, this checks for that
if (ptr == NULL)
{
printf("Memory could not be allocated.");
return 1;
}
else
else
{
printf("Memory was successfully allocated.");
//this makes sure we don't keep memory allocated that we're not using.
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