allocate matrix in C

Question

i want to allocate a matrix.

is this the only option:

int** mat = (int**)malloc(rows * sizeof(int*))

for (int index=0;index

        

Answer 1

what you can do is

int (*mat)[col];
mat=(int (*)[col])malloc(sizeof(*mat)*row);

and then use this new matrix as mat[i][j]