1REALLOCF(3bsd) LOCAL REALLOCF(3bsd)
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4 reallocf — general purpose memory allocation functions
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7 Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, -lbsd)
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10 #include <stdlib.h>
11 (See libbsd(7) for include usage.)
12 void *
14 reallocf(void *ptr, size_t size);
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17 The reallocf() function changes the size of the previously allocated mem‐
18 ory referenced by ptr to size bytes. The contents of the memory are
19 unchanged up to the lesser of the new and old sizes. If the new size is
20 larger, the contents of the newly allocated portion of the memory are
21 undefined. Upon success, the memory referenced by ptr is freed and a
22 pointer to the newly allocated memory is returned. Note that reallocf()
23 may move the memory allocation, resulting in a different return value
24 than ptr. If ptr is NULL, the reallocf() function behaves identically to
25 malloc() for the specified size. Upon failure, when the requested memory
26 cannot be allocated, the passed pointer is freed to ease the problems
27 with traditional coding styles for reallocf() causing memory leaks in
28 libraries.
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31 The reallocf() function returns a pointer, possibly identical to ptr, to
32 the allocated memory if successful; otherwise a NULL pointer is returned,
33 and errno is set to ENOMEM if the error was the result of an allocation
34 failure. The buffer is deallocated in this case.
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37 brk(2), mmap(2), alloca(3), calloc(3), free(3), malloc(3),
38 posix_memalign(3), realloc(3),
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41 The reallocf() function first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
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