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MEMORY(3) BSD Library Functions Manual MEMORY(3) NAME malloc, free, realloc, calloc, alloca, mmap -- general memory allocation operations LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <stdlib.h> void * malloc(size_t size); void free(void *ptr); void * realloc(void *ptr, size_t size); void * calloc(size_t nelem, size_t elsize); void * alloca(size_t size); #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/mman.h> void * mmap(void * addr, size_t len, int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset); DESCRIPTION These functions allocate and free memory for the calling process. They are described in the individual manual pages. SEE ALSO mmap(2), alloca(3), calloc(3), free(3), malloc(3), realloc(3) STANDARDS These functions, with the exception of alloca() and mmap() conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 ("ISO C90"). BSD June 4, 1993 BSD
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