Thread: using malloc method to hold the converted data to string/char array

I've searched around on google and found out that it's not recommended to use dynamic memory allocation in mikroC due to hardware memory limitations. Thanks for your help anyway.

Originally Posted by stanlvw

Elysia: What do you mean 5 chars is not enough to hold an uint? My uint would have at max 10 bits resolution.
cpjust: Thanks for your time on the casting issues. I copied the example code from cplusplus.com's explanation of malloc(). Also, stdio.h and stdlib.h are ignored on purpose in mikroC development suite, I think. Hence why I didn't include them.

I was referring to that the max number an uint can hold is 0xFFFFFFFF - in decimal, that is 4 294 967 295. I read... 10 digits. And since one byte is required for each digit in a string, that means the safest lowest amount of memory to allocate is 10 bytes for the numbers + 1 for '\0'. A few extra bytes of memory doesn't hurt that much I think.
It's better to be safe than sorry, especially if something bad happens or if you need higher numbers in the future.