You, of course, meant to say "malloc(4 * sizeof(t))", but we get your point. However, what happens when n * sizeof(t) is greater than size_t? Then the request can succeed, due to overflow making a ...

A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks of memory as and when you need them. This ...

Huh? What would be the semantics of a "hypothetical" calloc(4 * sizeof(t)), and how would they be different from the malloc(4 * sizeof(t))? Clearly bronson meant to compare malloc() to calloc() ...