Can the size of an array be declared at runtime?

Question:Can the size of an array be declared at runtime??

Answer: </I>No. In an array declaration, the size must be known at compile time. You can't specify a size that's known only at runtime. For example, if i is a variable, you can't write code like this: char array[i]; /* not valid C */ Some languages provide this latitude. C doesn't. If it did, the stack would be more complicated, function calls would be more expensive, and programs would run a lot slower. If you know that you have an array but you won't know until runtime how big it will be, declare a pointer to it and use malloc() or calloc() to allocate the array from the heap. &nbsp;

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