If I use malloc() to increase the size of an array, would that always work, or would I sometimes get a memory error?
If I use malloc() to increase the size of an array, would that always
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If I use malloc() to increase the size of an array, would that always work, or would I sometimes get a memory error?
It’ll “work” if you have enough memory. If you don’t have enough memory, then it will not work.
Now, when I say “work”, it depends what you mean by “work”.
mallocdoes not increase the size of anything other than your program’s memory usage.Why aren’t you using
std::vector?