XtMalloc() XtMalloc()
Name
XtMalloc - allocate memory.
Synopsis
char *XtMalloc(size);
Cardinalsize;
Inputs
size Specifies the number of bytes of memory to allocate.
Returns
A pointer to allocated memory.
Description
XtMalloc() allocates and returns a block of size bytes of memory. If there is insufficient memory to allocate the new block, XtMalloc()
terminates by calling XtErrorMsg().
XtMalloc() makes no guarantee about the contents of the memory when it is allocated.
Usage
In most cases, you will have to cast the return value of XtMalloc() to an appropriate pointer type.
XtNew() and XtNewString() provide slightly higher-level approaches to memory allocation.
Memory allocated with XtMalloc() must be deallocated with XtFree(). The function XtMalloc() is implemented by the Toolkit independently of
the particular environment, so programs ported to a system not supporting malloc will still work.
See Also
XtCalloc(1), XtErrorMsg(1), XtFree(1), XtNew(1), XtNewString(1), XtRealloc(1).
Xt - Memory Allocation XtMalloc()
