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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
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.\" |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.111 2017/04/10 06:31:31 jmc Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.112 2017/04/13 18:32:55 otto Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: April 10 2017 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: April 13 2017 $ |
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.Dt MALLOC 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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.Fn calloc , |
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and |
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.Fn realloc |
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allocate memory space. |
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allocate |
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.Em objects , |
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regions of memory to store values. |
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The |
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.Fn malloc |
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function allocates uninitialized space for an object of |
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to |
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.Fa size |
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bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) object. |
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If |
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.Fa ptr |
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is not |
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.Dv NULL , |
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it must be a pointer returned by an earlier call to an allocation or |
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reallocation function that was not freed in between. |
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The contents of the object are unchanged up to the lesser |
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of the new and old sizes. |
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If the new size is larger, the value of the newly allocated portion |
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.Fn freezero |
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function is similar to the |
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.Fn free |
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function except it ensures the memory being deallocated is explicitly |
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discarded. |
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function except it ensures memory is explicitly discarded. |
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If |
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.Fa ptr |
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is |
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.Dv NULL , |
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the |
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.Fa size |
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argument must be the size of the earlier allocation that returned |
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.Fa ptr , |
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otherwise the behaviour is undefined. |
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argument must be equal or smaller than the size of the earlier allocation |
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that returned |
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.Fa ptr . |
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.Fn freezero |
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guarantees the memory range starting at |
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.Fa ptr |
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with length |
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.Fa size |
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is discarded while deallocating the whole object originally allocated. |
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.Sh RETURN VALUES |
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Upon successful completion, the allocation functions |
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return a pointer to the allocated space; otherwise, a |
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