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

For pointers the struct is allocated enough memory just for the pointer. You have to create the memory for the char* and assign the value to the struct. Assuming you had char* name somewhere:

struct Person *who = malloc(sizeof(struct Person));
who->name = malloc((strlen(name)+1) * sizeof(char));
strcpy(who->name, name)