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Preprocessor & Memory Management

Understand the C preprocessor for macros and file inclusion, and learn dynamic memory management with malloc, calloc, and free.

2 weeks

Topics in this Chapter

1

Preprocessor Directives (#define, #include)

Understand the role of the preprocessor and the two most common directives: `#include` and `#define`.

2

Macros

Explore function-like macros that can accept arguments, and understand their benefits and pitfalls.

3

Dynamic Memory Allocation

Learn to allocate and deallocate memory at runtime using `malloc`, `calloc`, `realloc`, and `free`.

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