From 055d78227529d3c7f6780457d9db8cfddc27e2e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krishna Vedala <7001608+kvedala@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 17:09:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use dynamic memory

---
 exercism/acronym/acronym.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/exercism/acronym/acronym.c b/exercism/acronym/acronym.c
index 3ddfaaf0..4c0477f3 100644
--- a/exercism/acronym/acronym.c
+++ b/exercism/acronym/acronym.c
@@ -38,11 +38,12 @@ char *abbreviate(const char *phrase)
 
     i = 0;
     counter++;
-    char words[counter][80];
+    char **words = (char **)malloc(counter * sizeof(char *));
 
     /* initalizes words-array with empty strings */
     for (i = 0; i < counter; i++)
     {
+        words[i] = (char *)malloc(80 * sizeof(char));
         strcpy(words[i], "");
     }
 
@@ -83,5 +84,9 @@ char *abbreviate(const char *phrase)
         strcat(acr, words[i]);
     }
 
+    for (i = 0; i < counter; i++)
+        free(words[i]);
+    free(words);
+
     return acr;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}