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Lab04 - Strings and (de)allocation

Valgrind

  • use valgrind for memory leak detection
  • can detect forgotten allocated memory and the exact location of out-of-bound access
  • can report using uninitialized variables/memory
  • for better output, compile your program with -g flag
  • valgrind ./your-program

Documentation

  • https://en.cppreference.com/w/c
  • learn to understand the function declaration (the name, return type, and parameters)
  • the definition (code to be executed) might not always be available

Strings

  • Remember you can use #include <string.h> for helper functions
  • Let's declare an array of characters, and then ask the user for their first name
  • Print the name, its length, and say if it's the same as your own name
  • You can use the function strcmp to compare the strings, will return zero if the same

Dynamic memory

  • Modify your program to use dynamic memory for the name
  • Ask the user for other names
  • Use realloc to make the original name string bigger
  • Use memcpy to append the additional name to the original name/string
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