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-

struct Pe         


        

Answer 1

It will allocate 4 bytes for the name pointer, but no space for the "real" string. If you try to write there you will seg fault; you need to malloc (and free) it separately.

Using string (in C++) can save you some headache