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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 1.102 2017/03/06 18:44:21 otto Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.103 2017/03/07 06:07:50 otto Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: March 6 2017 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: March 7 2017 $ |
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.Dt MALLOC 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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.Nm malloc , |
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.Nm calloc , |
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.Nm reallocarray , |
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.Nm recallocarray , |
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.Nm realloc , |
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.Nm free |
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.Nd memory allocation and deallocation |
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.Fn recallocarray |
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function is similar to |
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.Fn reallocarray |
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except that it takes care of clearing newly allocated and freed memory. |
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except that it takes care of clearing newly allocated memory. |
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Additionally, the memory that becomes unallocated while shrinking |
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or moving existing allocations is erased. |
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If |
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.Fa ptr |
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is a |
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.Fa oldnmemb |
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must be a value such that |
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.Fa oldnmemb |
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* |
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* |
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.Fa size |
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is the size of an earlier allocation that returned |
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is 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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.Pp |
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.Er ENOMEM . |
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.Pp |
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If |
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.Fa ptr |
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.Fa ptr |
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is not NULL and multiplying |
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.Fa oldnmemb |
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and |
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.Sh IDIOMS |
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Consider |
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.Fn calloc |
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or the extension |
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or the extensions |
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.Fn reallocarray |
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and |
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.Fn recallocarray |
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when there is multiplication in the |
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.Fa size |
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argument of |
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.Fn reallocarray |
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function appeared in |
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.Ox 5.6 . |
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The |
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.Fn recallocarray |
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function appeared in |
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.Ox 6.1 . |
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.Sh CAVEATS |
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When using |
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.Fn malloc , |
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