[FEATURE] Dynamic memory allocation

[frankhart2018]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Dynamic memory allocation in simC.

Describe the solution you'd like
Open ended, come up with an intuitive syntax.

Note: Discuss syntax with a maintainer before implementing.

[Gaurav7888]

@frankhart2018 Hi I want to work upon this issue.
will use malloc for this purpose..

[frankhart2018]

@Gaurav7888 please mention the syntax here, once that is approved I or any other maintainer can assign you to this.

[Gaurav7888]

Like (pointer type ) malloc(sizeof() )
This is in general syntax gonna use .

[frankhart2018]

DMA includes allocating, reallocating, and deleting.

@Aayush-99 @PranshulDobriyal

[Gaurav7888]

free() could be used for deletion
I just checked out there is something called realloc() for this purpose , i will learn how to use it and apply to solve this issue.
@frankhart2018

[PranshulDobriyal]

@Gaurav7888 What syntax do you propose for the same in SimC ?

[Gaurav7888]

@PranshulDobriyal cpython have some functions to do abv things .

[PranshulDobriyal]

@Gaurav7888 Yes that will explain the backend of the desired functions, but what front-end (syntax in simC) do you propose.
For ex-
front-end (SimC code) -> print("hello world!!")
back-end - various functions that generate the corresponding C code -> printf("hello world!!");

[Math-O5]

@Gaurav7888 They are asking for something like:

Example of Sim-C allocating memory:

SimC code:

var i = new int
var j = new int[10]

Generated C code:

int* i = malloc(sizeof(int)); 
int* j = malloc(10*sizeof(int)); 

It's like SimC will interpreter the command.

[Math-O5]

@frankhart2018 Sim-C should predict the type of the variable? If so, it's change a lot of expected code.

A example.

SimC code:

var i = new var
var j = new var[10]

[victorjzsun]

What do we need dynamic memory allocation for other than variable length arrays?

[frankhart2018]

Can you start a discussion for this @victorjzsun.

[victorjzsun]

Created a discussion here