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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 1.72 2013/06/05 03:39:23 tedu Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.73 2013/07/18 10:14:49 schwarze Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2013 $ |
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.Dt MALLOC 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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function conforms to |
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.St -ansiC . |
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.Sh HISTORY |
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The |
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.Nm |
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family of functions first appeared in |
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A |
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.Fn free |
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internal kernel function and a predecessor to |
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.Fn malloc , |
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.Fn alloc , |
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first appeared in |
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.At v1 . |
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C library functions |
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.Fn alloc |
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and |
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.Fn free |
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appeared in |
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.At v6 . |
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The functions |
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.Fn malloc , |
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.Fn calloc , |
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and |
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.Fn realloc |
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first appeared in |
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.At v7 . |
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.Pp |
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A new implementation by Chris Kingsley was introduced in |
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.Bx 4.2 , |
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followed by a complete rewrite by Poul-Henning Kamp which appeared in |
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