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    Hardware-Specific Topics > Reserving Temporary Memory By Using alloca

    Reserving Temporary Memory By Using alloca

    Darryl Gove, May 22, 2008

    There are occasions where it's useful to allocate a small temporary working area for the duration of a call to a routine - for example to hold an array. One way of doing this is to use malloc and free:


      

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