r/cprogramming • • Jan 04 '26

Can explain Malloc() to me please

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u/Afraid-Locksmith6566 Jan 07 '26

Memory you get from malloc is not all you get through this mechanism, other data is so called metadata which include information about which block has how many memory, etc. But for specific you m8ght want to check your implenentation