Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] unsure about createD()
Date: Thursday, 19 Mar 2020, 08:08:12

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > My plan currently is to have a struct stack, and then in my deque struct,
    > have two stacks. I'm confused about what exactly I need to do in
    > createD() -- I understand (I think) that we're supposed to malloc space
    > for *d, the pointer to a Deque that's passed into the function, but I'm
    > unsure of what to do beyond that. Should I set my H and T stacks to
    > NULL/0? Do I need to do that, or are they automatically initialized to 0?

You need to initialize the space you malloc()-ed to
represent the fact that the two stacks are empty.

malloc() does not initialize the storage that it
allocates.

--Stan-