freebsd man page for memory

MEMORY(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 MEMORY(3)

NAME
     malloc, free, realloc, calloc, alloca, mmap -- general memory allocation operations

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdlib.h>

     void *
     malloc(size_t size);

     void
     free(void *ptr);

     void *
     realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);

     void *
     calloc(size_t nelem, size_t elsize);

     void *
     alloca(size_t size);

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/mman.h>

     void *
     mmap(void * addr, size_t len, int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset);

DESCRIPTION
     These functions allocate and free memory for the calling process.	They are described in the individual manual pages.

SEE ALSO
     mmap(2), alloca(3), calloc(3), free(3), malloc(3), realloc(3)

STANDARDS
     These functions, with the exception of alloca() and mmap() conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').

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								   June 4, 1993 							       BSD