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malloe(3X) malloe(3X)
NAME
malloe, free, realloe, ealloe, mallopt,
mallinfo - fast main memory allocator
SYNOPSIS
iinelude
ehar *malloe (size)
unsigned size;
void free (ptr)
ehar *ptr;
ehar * realloe (ptr, size)
ehar *ptr;
unsigned size;
ehar *ealloe (nelem, elsize)
unsigned nelem, elsize;
int mallopt (cmd, value)
int cmd, value;
struet mallinfo mallinfo(max)
int max;
DESCRIPTION
malloe and free provide a simple general-purpose memory allocation
package, which runs considerably faster than the
malloe(3C) package. It is found in the library "malloe", and
is loaded if the option "-lmalloe" is used with ee(l) or ld(l).
malloe returns a pointer to a block of at least size bytes suitably
aligned for any use.
The argument to free is a pointer to a block previously allocated
by malloe; after free is performed this space is made available
for further allocation, and its contents have been destroyed (but
see mallopt below for a way to change this behavior).
Undefined results will occur if the space assigned by malloe is
overrun or if some random number is handed to free.
realloe 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.
February, 1990
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