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What's the difference between calloc() and malloc()?
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Answer / guest
calloc() takes two arguments, and initializes the allocated
memory to all-bits-0.
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Answer / k.thejonath
Malloc allocates a block of memory whereas using calloc we
can allocate array of memory blocks and all locations are
initialized to zeros
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Answer / valli
the diffence is
1.prototype or no of arguments
calloc takes two arguments
where as malloc takes 1 argument
void *calloc(int ,int);
first argument is no of blocks required
secund argument is no of elementts in each block required
void *malloc(int);
in this total no of bytes reuired are taken as the argument
2.
calloc clears the bytes which are allocated or reserved
where malloc can not guarentee this
sorry for my poor english
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Answer / bhaswati
malloc allocates m bytes means it takes one arguments.but calloc allocate m times n bytes and initialized the memory location to zero.it takes two arguments.
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