What is the difference between malloc and calloc?

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malloc allocates memory without initialization; calloc allocates and initializes memory to zero.

  • malloc(size_t size): Allocates 'size' bytes of memory. Example: int *arr = (int *)malloc(10 * sizeof(int...read more

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