VALLOC(3C)VALLOC(3C)NAME
valloc - aligned memory allocator
SYNOPSIS
char *valloc(size)
unsigned size;
DESCRIPTION
Valloc is obsoleted by the current version of malloc, which aligns page-sized and larger allocations.
Valloc allocates size bytes aligned on a page boundary. It is implemented by calling malloc(3) with a slightly larger request, saving the
true beginning of the block allocated, and returning a properly aligned pointer.
DIAGNOSTICS
Valloc returns a null pointer(0) if there is no available memory or if the arena has been detectably corrupted by storing outside the
bounds of a block.
BUGS
Vfree isn't implemented.
3rd Berkeley Distribution May 12, 1986 VALLOC(3C)
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MALLOC(3) Library Functions Manual MALLOC(3)NAME
malloc, free, realloc, calloc, alloca - memory allocator
SYNOPSIS
char *malloc(size)
unsigned size;
free(ptr)
char *ptr;
char *realloc(ptr, size)
char *ptr;
unsigned size;
char *calloc(nelem, elsize)
unsigned nelem, elsize;
char *alloca(size)
int size;
DESCRIPTION
Malloc and free provide a general-purpose memory allocation package. Malloc returns a pointer to a block of at least size bytes beginning
on a word boundary.
The argument to free is a pointer to a block previously allocated by malloc; this space is made available for further allocation, but its
contents are left undisturbed.
Needless to say, grave disorder will result if the space assigned by malloc is overrun or if some random number is handed to free.
Malloc maintains multiple lists of free blocks according to size, allocating space from the appropriate list. It calls sbrk (see brk(2))
to get more memory from the system when there is no suitable space already free.
Realloc changes the size of the block pointed to by ptr to size bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) block. The contents
will be unchanged up to the lesser of the new and old sizes.
In order to be compatible with older versions, realloc also works if ptr points to a block freed since the last call of malloc, realloc or
calloc; sequences of free, malloc and realloc were previously used to attempt storage compaction. This procedure is no longer recommended.
Calloc allocates space for an array of nelem elements of size elsize. The space is initialized to zeros.
Alloca allocates size bytes of space in the stack frame of the caller. This temporary space is automatically freed on return.
Each of the allocation routines returns a pointer to space suitably aligned (after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of
object. If the space is of pagesize or larger, the memory returned will be page-aligned.
SEE ALSO brk(2), pagesize(2)DIAGNOSTICS
Malloc, realloc and calloc return a null pointer (0) if there is no available memory or if the arena has been detectably corrupted by stor-
ing outside the bounds of a block. Malloc may be recompiled to check the arena very stringently on every transaction; those sites with a
source code license may check the source code to see how this can be done.
BUGS
When realloc returns 0, the block pointed to by ptr may be destroyed.
The current implementation of malloc does not always fail gracefully when system memory limits are approached. It may fail to allocate
memory when larger free blocks could be broken up, or when limits are exceeded because the size is rounded up. It is optimized for sizes
that are powers of two.
Alloca is machine dependent; its use is discouraged.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 14, 1986 MALLOC(3)
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