If free() knows the length of my array, why can't I ask for it in my own code?
- by Chris Cooper
I know that it's a common convention to pass the length of dynamically allocated arrays to functions that manipulate them:
void initializeAndFree(int* anArray, int length);
int main(){
int arrayLength = 0;
scanf("%d", &arrayLength);
int* myArray = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)*arrayLength);
initializeAndFree(myArray, arrayLength);…
