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In the examples so far, the programs have only had as much memory available as has been declared for the variables at compile time. This is referred to as static allocation. If any additional memory is needed at runtime it becomes necessary to use dynamic allocation. The C standard library provides several functions for managing dynamically allocated memory, including: malloc, free, and realloc. These functions are found in the stdlib.h header file.
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Olsson, M. (2015). Memory Management. In: C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6500-9_19
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