valloc man page on PC-BSD

valloc man page on PC-BSD

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VALLOC(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		     VALLOC(3)

NAME
     valloc — aligned memory allocation function

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     void *
     valloc(size_t size);

DESCRIPTION
     The valloc() function is obsoleted by posix_memalign(3), which can be
     used to request page-aligned allocations.

     The valloc() function allocates size bytes aligned on a page boundary.

RETURN VALUES
     The valloc() function returns a pointer to the allocated space if suc‐
     cessful; otherwise a null pointer is returned.

SEE ALSO
     posix_memalign(3)

HISTORY
     The valloc() function appeared in 3.0BSD.

     The valloc() function correctly allocated memory that could be deallo‐
     cated via free() starting in FreeBSD 7.0.

BSD			       October 30, 2007				   BSD

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