Arrays: Memory
Terms List
Contiguous
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This means "touching". Two blocks of
memory are contiguous if one begins immediately after the first
one ends.
Null Character
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This is the character that is used to mark the end of strings in C.
It is written "\0" and has the ASCII value zero.
Null-Terminated
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This means that the last element in an array is the null
character. Strings in C are said to be null-terminated, and
many string functions rely on
this property.
Local
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This refers to things that apply to the
current function but do not apply outside the current function
call. For example, a local variable is a variable declared
inside a function that disappears when the function returns.
