Malloc error handling

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Malloc error handling

What are the possible errors that can occur when allocating memory using mallocexcept out of memory? What are the best strategies to resolve these errors?

To out of memory exceptionwhether to release the pointer, even if a failure is not fulfilled?

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Aman deep gautam Jun 19 '12 at 17:31

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Ira Baxter 26 . '12 8:01

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Jim balter Jun 19 '12 at 17:55

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Attila · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-19T17:34:57+0000

There are no exceptions in C (but you cannot use them in any language), so the only way mallocto signal a failure is to return a null pointer. Therefore, you should check the return value. If it is 0, the distribution failed (for some reason) and no memory was allocated - do not release anything; otherwise allocating the requested amount (*) would be successful and you would need to free the memory when it is no longer needed.

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