{"id":26679,"date":"2022-12-19T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-allocate-a-pointer\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:08:32","slug":"solved-c-allocate-a-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-allocate-a-pointer\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] C: allocate a pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-35464669\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"35464669\" data-parentid=\"35464562\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<pre><code>head=malloc(sizeof(node*));\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Will allocate a space in memory to hold a POINTER to a object of type node.<\/p>\n<pre><code>head=malloc(sizeof(node));\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Will allocate space for the structure itself, and return to you the address of that memory space, and you will hold that in the <code>head<\/code> variable<\/p>\n<p>For more info, check this other question about Malloc.<br \/>\nHow do free and malloc work in C?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved C: allocate a pointer <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] head=malloc(sizeof(node*)); Will allocate a space in memory to hold a POINTER to a object of type node. head=malloc(sizeof(node)); Will allocate space for the structure itself, and return to you the address of that memory space, and you will hold that in the head variable For more info, check this other question about Malloc. 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