Thread: confused with memory allocation

hello guys,

i wirting a program to read a string using s fgets function. look in to the code what i havw written.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

int main()
{
        char *p;
        p=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*10);
        
        fgets(p,sizeof(p),stdin);
        fputs(p,stdout);
      
       getchar();
}

when i run this program i allocated only 3 bits int the memory rather than allocating 10 bytes. and here is the sample output of what it does

Code:

hello world
hel

i don't understand why it is can any one can explain what it is please

thax very much in advance

thax very much it works fine for me now