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malloe(3C) malloe(3C)
realloe also works if ptr points to a block freed since the last
call of malloe, realloe, or ealloe; thus sequences of free,
malloe, and realloe can exploit the search strategy of malloe
to do storage compaction.
ealloe allocates space for an array of nelem elements of size elsize.
The space is initialized to zeros.
The arguments to efree are the pointer to a block previously allocated
by ealloc plus the parameters to ealloe.
Each of the allocation routines returns a pointer to space suitably
aligned (after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of
object
RETURN VALUE
malloe, realloe, and ealloe return a NULL pointer if there
is no available memory or if the arena is deteected to have been
corrupted by storing outside the bounds of a block. When this
happens the block pointed to by ptr may be destroyed.
NOTES
Search time increases when many objects have been allocated;
that is, if a program allocates space but never frees it, each successive
allocation takes longer.
SEE ALSO
brk(2), malloe(3X).
2 February, 1990
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