Allocation of memory for char array

Question

Let\'s say you have-

struct Person {
    char *name;
    int age;
    int height;
    int weight; 
 };

If you do-

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Answer 1

The name member is just a pointer. The size of a pointer varies with the underlying architecture, but is usually 4 or 8 bytes nowadays.

The data that name can point to (if assigned later) should be laid out in an area that does not coincide with the struct at all.

At the language level, the struct doesn't know anything about the memory that the name member is pointing to; you have to manage that manually.