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MEMORY(3) FreeBSD 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").
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 4, 1993 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11