C Memory Management

Question

I\'ve always heard that in C you have to really watch how you manage memory. And I\'m still beginning to learn C, but thus far, I have not had to do any memory managing rela

Answer 1

@Euro Micelli

One negative to add is that pointers to the stack are no longer valid when the function returns, so you cannot return a pointer to a stack variable from a function. This is a common error and a major reason why you can't get by with just stack variables. If your function needs to return a pointer, then you have to malloc and deal with memory management.