Question

In the function malloc(), each byte of allocated space is initialized to zero.

(a) True

(b) False

I got this question by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

This intriguing question comes from DMA Functions, Memory Leak, Dangling Pointers topic in portion Dynamic Memory Allocation in C of C

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) False

The best explanation: In the function malloc(), allocated space is initialized to junk values. In calloc(), each byte of allocated space is initialized to zero.