C dynamic memory allocation

C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, mainly malloc, realloc, calloc, aligned_alloc and free. The C++ programming language includes these functions; however, the operators new and delete provide similar functionality and are recommended by that language's authors.

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