What is the difference between malloc() and calloc() functions?

Correct Answer: As against malloc(), calloc() needs two arguments, the number of elements to be allocated and the size of each element For example, p = (int *) calloc (10, sizeof (int)); would allocate space for a 10- integer array Additionally, calloc() would also set each of this element with a value 0 Thus the above call to calloc() is equivalent to: p = (int *) malloc (10 * sizeof (int)); memset (p, 0, 10 * sizeof( int ));