Another Question...memory allocation

1) Which of the following would correctly allocate enough memory to store N integers? The integer pointer in this question is p and N is an integer with a value greater than 0 but not so large taht the amount of memory requested exceeds the amount available.

A. p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int) + N);
B. p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int * N));
C. p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int) * N);

I haven't really worked with memory allocation...but i'm going to make a guess here. I don' think its A because that would just be adding the number of integers to the size of int.
B would actually change the value of the number and C multiplies the size of the int times the number of ints...so i guess C makes the most sense? I don't really have a clue though...
Thanks in advance!

There isn't the option I like: None of the above. You should not cast malloc() in standard C, so all of them having casts mean that none of the alternatives are correct.

C is the "nearest to correct" answer.
B will not compile at all, and A will not be correct [except for the special case of 16-bit integers and N = 2 - as that will be 2 + 2 = 2 * 2 = 4 bytes].

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Mats

You could also leave off the data type as the argument to the sizeof operator.

That could result in:

Code:

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p = (int *)malloc(sizeof(*p) * N);

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And of course, the whole "not casting malloc()" thing.

> You should not cast malloc() in standard C, so all of them having casts mean that none of the alternatives are correct.

The cast may be bad practice, but it's not actually wrong (assuming it's the right cast). But not prototyping malloc() properly with #include <stdlib.h>, which the OP didn't mention, would be.

thanks for the help :-)