C | Dynamic Memory Allocation | Question 5

What is the return type of malloc() or calloc()
(A) void *
(B) Pointer of allocated memory type
(C) void **
(D) int *

Answer: (A)
Explanation: malloc() and calloc() return void *.

We may get warning in C if we don’t type cast the return type to appropriate pointer.
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