Good day,
Generally speaking, for C programming, what can I do, if the application which I am writing requires the heap to expand and contract dynamically?
rocky1821
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Jump to PostEr, mostly the C runtime library takes care of it for you?
Do you have a specific "for example..." to tell us about where this standard behaviour is a problem?
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Salem
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Er, mostly the C runtime library takes care of it for you?
Do you have a specific "for example..." to tell us about where this standard behaviour is a problem?
rocky1821
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amm...no...no example...
just wanna find out how to do it
the way i thought about it, i could probably use a link list or dynamically allocate the storage on the fly using caloc/malloc...
u think this would work?
Salem
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Ah, you mean other expanding data structures like lists, queues, trees etc.
Sure, use malloc and free
When you say "the heap", you're referring to the pool of memory managed by the C runtime library functions malloc, calloc, realloc and free.
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