Learning C

As a junior programmer, co-workers are one very valuable source of insight. I might stumble upon those bits of information elsewhere, but that's not what this is about.

2018-11-22 Malloc will reserve a piece of memory in the heap area. Depending on your system this usually means 1 to 4 KByte, no matter how tiny your variable. If, for example, you're using malloc to reserve memory for a 2 Byte variable, it gets a whole kilo byte at the least to reside in. So, malloc is something you'd use for bigger data structures.