I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs.1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

daa allocates dynamically in C/C++ arrays of any type that you can take sizeof() in the pointer to pointer … style with an arbitrary number of dimensions, arbitrary starting subscript for each ...

What is the advantage of using zero-length arrays in C? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Love.

You can use the REDIM function to change the high bound of any dimension of a dynamic array at runtime. You cannot change the number of dimensions or type of the array, only the bounds. The REDIM ...