diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'static/unix-v10/man3/valloc.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | static/unix-v10/man3/valloc.3 | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man3/valloc.3 b/static/unix-v10/man3/valloc.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e079a052 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man3/valloc.3 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.UC +.TH VALLOC 3 +.SH NAME +valloc \- aligned memory allocator +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B char *valloc(size) +.B unsigned size; +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Valloc +allocates +.I size +bytes aligned on a boundary adequate for +.IR vread (2)). +It is implemented by calling +.IR malloc (3) +with a slightly larger request, saving the true beginning of the block +allocated, and returning a properly aligned pointer. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.I Valloc +returns a null pointer (0) if there is no available memory +or if the arena has been detectably corrupted by storing outside the bounds +of a block. +.SH BUGS +.I Vfree +isn't implemented. |
