Is it possible to declare a variable in C, the name of which is given by the user at runtime? If yes, then how?
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Is it possible to declare a variable in C, the name of which is given by the user at runtime? If yes, then how?
No, this is not possible: variable names do not survive the compilation step, becoming addresses and offsets “baked into” the compiled binary code.
It is, however, possible to declare a variable the name of which is given by the developer at compile-time by using a
-Dor a comparable option of your C compiler.