Difference between start-pointers and interior-pointers and in what situation we should prefer one over other?
Difference between start-pointers and interior-pointers and in what situation we should prefer one over
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Difference between start-pointers and interior-pointers and in what situation we should prefer one over other?
As a complete guess, a “start-pointer” is a pointer returned by
mallocornew[], whereas an “interior-pointer” is a pointer to the middle of the allocation.If so, then the important difference is that you need to
freethe start-pointer, not an interior-pointer.This isn’t terminology from the standard, though. “Interior pointer” usually means a pointer into some larger block of memory and I guess/deduce the rest. So, you probably need to provide the context. What book/course/interview is the question from?