Its name is malloc for memory allocation and what malloc does for us is we say, hmm, the user has typed in a three-letter word.

它为我们分配内存地址,它为用户输入的3个字母单词,分配地址。

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That is the address in memory in the heap of the first byte that the user typed in.

那是用户输入的字符串第一个字节,内存中堆的地址。

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Let's assume that the user typed in a pretty short word we didn't run out of memory or anything crazy so here's the new feature.

假设用户输入,很短的单词，没有出现超出内存之类的问题,这里是新的特点。

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