The size of arrays in C is set at compile time. In the previous chapter, you learned a way of defining dynamically allocated C strings, which are arrays of characters. In this chapter, you will see how you can define at runtime arrays of any type. If you haven’t read Chapter 6, I suggest that you quickly go through it, so that you can use it as a reference for this chapter.
That said, it doesn’t mean that you can immediately convert the string functions and macros of Chapter 6 to work with any type of element because the conversion would present two immediate obstacles:
C strings are null-terminated, ...
