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3.2.2 Unconstrained Allocation

The most general dynamic allocation facility is malloc. It allows you to allocate blocks of memory of any size at any time, make them bigger or smaller at any time, and free the blocks individually at any time (or never).

• Basic Memory Allocation
• Examples of malloc
• Freeing Memory Allocated with malloc
• Changing the Size of a Block
• Allocating Cleared Space
• Efficiency Considerations for malloc
• Allocating Aligned Memory Blocks
• Malloc Tunable Parameters
• Heap Consistency Checking
• Memory Allocation Hooks
• Statistics for Memory Allocation with malloc
• Summary of malloc-Related Functions