动态内存分配Dynamic allocation（C语言划重点）

动态内存分配Dynamic allocation（C语言划重点）

Dynamic allocation of memory allows building complex data structures such as linked lists. Allocating memory dynamically helps us to store data without initially knowing the size of the data in the time we wrote the program.

To allocate a chunk of memory dynamically, we have to have a pointer ready - which will store the location of the newly allocated memory. We can access memory that was allocated to us using that same pointer, and we can use that pointer to free the memory we got, once we finish using it.

Let's assume we want to dynamically allocate a person structure. The person is defined like this:

typedef struct {
    char * name;
    int age;
} person;