VENTI-MEM(2) VENTI-MEM(2)
NAME
vtbrk, vtmalloc, vtmallocz, vtrealloc, vtstrdup, vtfree -
error-checking memory allocators
SYNOPSIS
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <venti.h>
void* vtbrk(int size)
void* vtmalloc(int size)
void* vtmallocz(int size)
void* vtrealloc(void *ptr, int size)
char* vtstrdup(char *s)
void vtfree(void *ptr)
DESCRIPTION
These routines allocate and free memory. On failure, they
print an error message and call sysfatal (from perror(2)).
They do not return.
Vtbrk returns a pointer to a new, permanently allocated
block of at least size bytes.
Vtmalloc, vtrealloc, and vtstrdup are like malloc, realloc,
and strdup, but, as noted above, do not return on error.
Vtmallocz is like vtmalloc but zeros the block before
returning it. Memory allocated with all four should be
freed with vtfree when no longer needed.
SOURCE
/sys/src/libventi
SEE ALSO
venti(2)
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