Initializing a pointer in a separate function in C

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You need to adjust the *a pointer, this means you need to pass a pointer to the *a. You do that like this:

int *a;

void initArray( int **arr )
{
    *arr = malloc( sizeof( int )  * SIZE );
}

int main()
{
    initArray( &a );
    return 0;
}

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