What will happen if I malloc a pointer of a struct datatype which contains an element of a pointer of another datatype?

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英文:

What will happen if I malloc a pointer of a struct datatype which contains an element of a pointer of another datatype?

问题

考虑以下代码:

typedef struct list_ele
{
    char *value;
    struct list_ele *next;
} list_ele_t;

typedef struct
{
    list_ele_t *head;
    int qSize;
} queue_t;

如果我使用函数来为queue_t类型的指针分配内存,就像这样:

queue_t *q = malloc(sizeof(queue_t));

实际上会发生什么?我的意思是,malloc将创建多大的内存,我是否应该使用以下代码:

q->head = malloc(sizeof(list_ele_t));

来为q->head申请空间?

我不擅长C语言(;w;),我尽力思考了但什么也没得到。

英文:

Consider the following code:

typedef struct list_ele
{
    char *value;
    struct list_ele *next;
}list_ele_t;

typedef struct
{
    list_ele_t *head;
    int qSize;
}queue_t;

And If I use a function to malloc a pointer of queue_t like this

queue_t *q = malloc(sizeof(queue_t));

What it actually happen? I mean, how big the memory it will create by malloc, should I use the following code

q->head = malloc(sizeof(list_ele_t));

to apply for space for q->head?

I'm not good at C language (;w;) , I try my best to think but I got nothing.

答案1

得分: 1

一个C指针通常!!!是8个字节,所以当你执行以下操作时:

queue_t *q = malloc(sizeof(queue_t));

你分配了8个字节(指针)+ 4个字节(整数)+ 4个字节(填充,见下文)(通常)的内存,然后你让q指向它。由于你还没有为q->head分配任何内容,q->head将指向随机的内存位置。当你执行以下操作时:

q->head = malloc(sizeof(list_ele_t));

你分配了8个字节 + 8个字节(通常)的内存,然后将q->head指向它。此外,了解一下结构填充是什么:

sizeof(queue_t)    -> 16
sizeof(list_ele_t) -> 16

因此,实际上你为q指向的内存分配了超过12个字节。

英文:

A C pointer is usually!!! 8 bytes so when you do

queue_t *q = malloc(sizeof(queue_t));

you allocate 8(pointer) + 4(int) + 4(padding, see bellow) (usually) bytes of memory and you have q point to it. q->head is going to point to a random location as you have not assigned anything to it. Of course when you do

q->head = malloc(sizeof(list_ele_t));

you allocate 8 + 8 (usually) bytes of memory and you point q->head to it. Also learn what structure padding is:

sizeof(queue_t)    -> 16
sizeof(list_ele_t) -> 16

So you actually allocate more than 12 bytes for the memory that q points to.

答案2

得分: 1

    栈         |       堆
                  |
      q ----------|---> +------------+
                  |     + 一块内存   +
                  |     +  大小等于  +
                  |     +  queue_t   +
                  |     +   结构体   +
                  |     +------------+
(指向 queue_t     |          / \
 结构体的指针)   |         /   \ 
                  |        /     \  
                  |   qsize    head    
                  |                |
                  |                |
                  |                | 
                  |      +-----------+         
                  |      + 一块大小为 +
                  |      +  size list  +
                  |      +   的内存   +
                  |      +-----------+
                  |

附注:

  1. 通过 malloc 分配的存储是未初始化的。
  2. malloc 通过返回 NULL 指针值来指示失败。
  3. 对于每次分配,都必须有一个对应的 free
英文:
    Stack         |       Heap
                  |
      q ----------|---> +------------+
                  |     + A chunk of +         
                  |     +   memory   +
                  |     +  equal to  +
                  |     +   sizeof   +
                  |     +   queue_t  +
(a pointer to     |     +------------+
 a struct of      |          / \
 type queue_t)    |         /   \ 
                  |        /     \  
                  |   qsize      head    
                  |                |
                  |                |
                  |                | 
                  |      +-----------+         
                  |      + Chunk of  +
                  |      + memory of +
                  |      + size list +
                  |      +-----------+
                  |

Side Notes:

  1. The storage that is allocated through malloc is uninitialized.

  2. malloc indicates failure by returning a NULL pointer value.

  3. For every allocation, there must be a free.

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