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Tutorial 76: Chapter 4 - Dynamic Memory Allocation

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Tutorial ID	76
Title	Chapter 4 - Dynamic Memory Allocation
It's array again! As mentioned before A statically declared array is fixed in size, i.e. the size of a statically declared array MUST be known at compile time In real applications, it is not always easy or even impossible to estimate how many elements we will need to use We usually need to deal with an arbitrary amount of data input Over estimate Waste of memory / Memory inefficient Underestimate Overflow / Exception / Error -> Fails to get the job done One size doesn’t suit all case...