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Memory Allocation ¶

G-Golf Glib Memory Allocation low level API.
Memory Allocation — general memory-handling

Procedures ¶

g-malloc

g-malloc0

g-free

g-memdup

Description ¶

These functions provide support for allocating and freeing memory.

Please read the Memory Allocation section from the Glib reference manual for a complete description.

Procedures ¶

Procedure: g-malloc n-bytes ¶

Procedure: g-malloc0 n-bytes ¶

Returns a pointer to the allocated memory, or #f.

Allocates n-bytes of memory. If n-bytes is 0 it returns #f. When using g-malloc0, the allocated memory is initialized to 0.

Procedure: g-free mem ¶

Returns nothing.

Frees the memory pointed to by mem.

Procedure: g-memdup mem n-bytes ¶

Returns a pointer to the allocated memory, or #f.

Allocates n-bytes of memory and copies n-bytes into it from mem. If mem is the %null-pointer or n-bytes is 0 it returns #f.