Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Consider the following function which dynamically allocates memory:
int fillarray(int size){
int ptr
for (int i = 8; i< size; i++){
*(ptr+i) = i;
(int*) malloc(sizeof(int)
size);
!!
return ptr;
Does this function create a memory leak?
O Yes, because the caller of fillArray() cannot free the memory allocated by malloc in fillArra
O No, because the caller of fillArray() can free the memory because the caller gets back a po
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Transcribed Image Text:Consider the following function which dynamically allocates memory: int fillarray(int size){ int ptr for (int i = 8; i< size; i++){ *(ptr+i) = i; (int*) malloc(sizeof(int) size); !! return ptr; Does this function create a memory leak? O Yes, because the caller of fillArray() cannot free the memory allocated by malloc in fillArra O No, because the caller of fillArray() can free the memory because the caller gets back a po
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