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When I call malloc to allocate memory for a pointer which is local to a function ....
When I call malloc to allocate memory for a pointer which is local to a function, do I have to explicitly free it? Yes. Remember that a pointer is different from what it points to. Local variablesare deallocated when the function returns, but in the case of a pointer variable, this means that the po... 2016-03-31, 1588👍, 0💬

y program is crashing, apparently somewhere down inside malloc ....
My program is crashing, apparently somewhere down inside malloc, but I can't see anything wrong with it. Is there a bug in malloc? It is unfortunately very easy to corrupt malloc's internal data structures, and the resulting problems can be stubborn. The most common source of problems is writing mor... 2016-04-06, 1587👍, 0💬

People seem to make a point of distinguishing between ...
People seem to make a point of distinguishing between implementation-defined, unspecified, and undefined behavior. What do these mean? First of all, all three of these represent areas in which the C Standard does not specify exactly what a particular construct, or a program which uses it, must do. T... 2015-11-23, 1560👍, 0💬

How can printf use f for type double, if scanf requires lf?
Someone told me it was wrong to use %lf with printf. How can printf use %f for type double, if scanf requires %lf? It's true that printf's %f specifier works with both float and double arguments Due to the ``default argument promotions'' (which apply in variable-length argument lists values of type ... 2015-11-06, 1560👍, 0💬

What is the difference between memcpy and memmove?
What is the difference between memcpy and memmove? memmove offers guaranteed behavior if the memory regions pointed to by the source and destination arguments overlap. memcpy makes no such guarantee, and may therefore be more efficiently implementable. When in doubt, it's safer to use memmove. It se... 2015-07-16, 1556👍, 0💬

What is a good way to check for ``close enough'' floating-point equality?
What is a good way to check for ``close enough'' floating-point equality? Since the absolute accuracy of floating point values varies, by definition, with their magnitude, the best way of comparing two floating point values is to use an accuracy threshold which is relative to the magnitude of the nu... 2015-06-26, 1555👍, 0💬

How do I swap bytes?
How do I swap bytes? V7 Unix had a swab function, but it seems to have been forgotten. A problem with explicit byte-swapping code is that you have to decide whether to call it or not, based on the byte order of the data and the byte order of the machine in use. A better solution is to define functio... 2015-02-16, 1553👍, 0💬

How can I split up a string into whitespace-separated fields?
How can I split up a string into whitespace-separated fields? How can I duplicate the process by which main() is handed argc and argv? The only Standard function available for this kind of ``tokenizing'' is strtok, although it can be tricky to use and it may not do everything you want it to. (For in... 2015-08-17, 1544👍, 0💬

What does the message warning macro replacement within a string literal mean?
What does the message warning macro replacement within a string literal mean? Some pre-ANSI compilers/preprocessors interpreted macro definitions like #define TRACE(var, fmt) printf("TRACE: var = fmt\n", var) such that invocations like TRACE(i, %d); were expanded as printf("TRACE: i = %d\n", i); In ... 2015-12-14, 1540👍, 0💬

What is the difference between these initializations? ....
What is the difference between these initializations? char a[] = "string literal"; char *p = "string literal"; My program crashes if I try to assign a new value to p[i]. A string literal (the formal term for a double-quoted string in C source) can be used in two slightly different ways: 1. As the in... 2016-03-09, 1539👍, 0💬

Why does the ANSI Standard place limits on the length and case-significance of external identifiers?
Why does the ANSI Standard place limits on the length and case-significance of external identifiers? The problem is linkers which are under control of neither the ANSI/ISO Standard nor the C compiler developers on the systems which have them. The limitation is only that identifiers be significant in... 2015-12-04, 1538👍, 0💬

If I have a char * variable pointing to the name of a function ...
If I have a char * variable pointing to the name of a function, how can I call that function? Code like extern int func(int, int); char *funcname = "func"; int r = (*funcname)(1, 2); or r = (*(int (*)(int, int))funcname)(1, 2); doesn't seem to work. By the time a program is running, information abou... 2015-02-20, 1537👍, 0💬

What is the best way of making my program efficient?
What is the best way of making my program efficient? By picking good algorithms, implementing them carefully, and making sure that your program isn't doing any extra work. For example, the most microoptimized character-copying loop in the world will be beat by code which avoids having to copy charac... 2015-02-11, 1534👍, 0💬

What is the difference between calloc and malloc? ....
What's the difference between calloc and malloc? Which should I use? Is it safe to take advantage of calloc's zero-filling? Does free work on memory allocated with calloc, or do you need a cfree? calloc(m, n) is essentially equivalent to p = malloc(m * n); memset(p, 0, m * n); There is no important ... 2016-03-16, 1532👍, 0💬

How do I set variables to, or test for IEEE NaN?
How do I set variables to, or test for IEEE NaN (``Not a Number'') and other special values? Many systems with high-quality IEEE floating-point implementations provide facilities (e.g. predefined constants, and functions like isnan(), either as nonstandard extensions in &lt;math.h> or perhaps in... 2015-06-21, 1529👍, 0💬

Why wont the Frobozz Magic C Compiler ...
Why won't the Frobozz Magic C Compiler, which claims to be ANSI compliant, accept this code? I know that the code is ANSI, because gcc accepts it. Many compilers support a few non-Standard extensions, gcc more so than most. Are you sure that the code being rejected doesn't rely on such an extension?... 2015-11-25, 1527👍, 0💬

So what could go wrong? Are there really any systems where void main doesnt work?
So what could go wrong? Are there really any systems where void main doesnt work? It has been reported that programs using void main() and compiled using BC++ 4.5 can crash. Some compilers (including DEC C V4.1 and gcc with certain warnings enabled) will complain about void main(). 2015-12-18, 1524👍, 0💬

Must I free allocated memory before the program exits?
Must I free allocated memory before the program exits? You shouldn't have to. A real operating system definitively reclaims all memory and other resources when a program exits; the system cannot afford to have memory integrity depend on the whims of random programs. (Strictly speaking, it is not eve... 2016-03-28, 1523👍, 0💬

What is the right type to use for Boolean values in C? ....
What is the right type to use for Boolean values in C? Is there a standard type? Should I use #defines or enums for the true and false values? Traditionally, C did not provide a standard Boolean type, partly and partly to allow the programmer to make the appropriate space/time tradeoff. (Using an in... 2016-03-02, 1511👍, 0💬

Here is a good puzzle: how do you write a program which produces its own source code as output?
Here is a good puzzle: how do you write a program which produces its own source code as output? It is actually quite difficult to write a self-reproducing program that is truly portable, due particularly to quoting and character set difficulties. Here is a classic example (which ought to be presente... 2015-01-02, 1509👍, 0💬

What is C language?
What is C language? The C programming language is a standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX operating system. It has since spread to many other operating systems, and is one of the most widely used programming languages. C... 2014-12-31, 1509👍, 0💬

How can I get the numeric value corresponding to a character? ....
How can I get the numeric value (i.e. ASCII or other character set code) corresponding to a character, or vice versa? In C, characters are represented by small integers corresponding to their values in the machine's character set. Therefore, you don't need a conversion function: if you have the char... 2016-03-07, 1507👍, 0💬

I am trying to use the ANSI stringizing preprocessing operator ...
I'm trying to use the ANSI ``stringizing'' preprocessing operator `#' to insert the value of a symbolic constant into a message, but it keeps stringizing the macro's name rather than its value. It turns out that the definition of # says that it's supposed to stringize a macro argument immediately, w... 2015-12-16, 1506👍, 0💬

I figured I could use scanf more safely if I checked its ...
I figured I could use scanf more safely if I checked its return value to make sure that the user typed the numeric values I expect: int n; while(1) { printf("enter a number: "); if(scanf("%d", &amp;n) == 1) break; printf("try again: "); } printf("you typed %d\n", n); but sometimes it seems to go... 2015-10-19, 1505👍, 0💬

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