How do malloc() and free() work?

How do malloc() and free() work?

c++ c memory-management malloc free

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Why malloc+memset is slower than calloc?

c malloc

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Do I cast the result of malloc?

c malloc casting

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Difference between malloc and calloc?

c malloc calloc

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What REALLY happens when you don't free after malloc?

c malloc free

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Setting variable to NULL after free

c coding-style malloc free heap-memory

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Why does "The C Programming Language" book say I must cast malloc?

c casting malloc kernighan-and-ritchie

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Incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘malloc’

c struct malloc

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Why is the use of alloca() not considered good practice?

c stack malloc allocation alloca

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Freaky way of allocating two-dimensional array?

c arrays multidimensional-array malloc allocation

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Why do I get a warning every time I use malloc?

c gcc malloc warnings sizeof

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What's the point of malloc(0)?

c malloc

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How is malloc() implemented internally? [duplicate]

c memory malloc system-calls sbrk

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Why does `free` in C not take the number of bytes to be freed?

c memory-management malloc free

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Why does malloc initialize the values to 0 in gcc?

c linux gcc malloc

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