Sum of two arrays

Question

The exercise says \"Make a function with parameters two int arrays and k which is their size. The function should return another array (size k) where every element of it is the

Answer 1

This:

int i,g,a[g],b[g];

causes undefined behaviour. The value of g is undefined upon initialisation, so therefore the length of a and b will be undefined.

You probably want something like:

int i, g;
int *a;
int *b;  // Note: recommend declaring on separate lines, to avoid issues
scanf("%d", &g);
a = malloc(sizeof(*a) * g);
b = malloc(sizeof(*b) * g);
...
free(a);
free(b);

Answer 2

One issue is that you've attempted to declare dynamically sized arrays on the stack (e.g. a[g]). You need to declare pointers for each array and then dynamically allocate your variable sized array once you've read in the value of g.

Answer 3

Its impossible to first do a[g] when dynamically getting g.

Your first lines in main should be:

int i,g;
int *a,*b;
printf("Give size of both arrays: ");
scanf("%d",&g);
a = (int *)malloc(g*sizeof(int));
b = (int *)malloc(g*sizeof(int));

Answer 4

change the function summary signature (the definition part of the declaration) to this and try it out:

void sumarray(int k,int* A,int* B){

Answer 5

int sum[k] ;

k is a variable but the size of the array should be a constant.

The function should return another array (size k) ...

But the function you wrote returns void which is clearly wrong.

Do I have to do it with pointers?

Yes.