Multiply Strings

Given two numbers represented as strings, return multiplication of the numbers as a string.

Note: The numbers can be arbitrarily large and are non-negative.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

char *multiply(char *num1, char *num2) {
    int i, j, k, n, m;
    int flag1 = 0, flag2 = 0, data1, data2;
    for(i = 0; num1[i] != '\0'; i++);
    n = i;
    for(j = 0; num2[j] != '\0'; j++);
    m = j;
    printf("m:%d, n:%d\n", m, n);
    char *res = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (m + n));
    for(k = 0; k < (m + n); k++) res[k] = '0';
    for(j = m - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
        for(i = n - 1, flag1 = 0, flag2 = 0, k = j + n ; i >= 0; i--) {
            data1 = (num1[i] - '0') * (num2[j] - '0') + flag1;
            if(data1 > 9) {
                flag1= data1 / 10;
                data1 = data1 % 10;
            }
            else flag1 = 0;
            data2 = (res[k] - '0') + data1 + flag2;
            if(data2 > 9) {
                flag2= 1;
                data2 = data2 % 10;
            }
            else flag2 = 0;
            res[k] = data2 + '0';
            k--;
        }
        res[k] = flag1 + '0';
        k--;
    }
    data2 = res[0] - '0' + flag2; 
    res[0] = data2 + '0';
    if(res[0] == '0') {
        for(i = 0; res[i + 1] != '\0'; i++) {
            res[i] = res[i + 1];
        }
        res[i] = '\0';
    }
    return res;      
}

void main() {
    char *num1 = "123456789", *num2 = "123456789";
    char *data = multiply(num1, num2);
    printf("%s\n", data);
}