Allocate a block of heap memory.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <stdlib.h>

void *malloc(size_t size);

Parameters for this facility are:

size

size_t

The size in bytes of the allocation

The malloc() function allocates a block of contiguous heap memory size bytes large.

malloc() returns a pointer to the first byte of the allocated block if it is successful and return a null pointer if it fails.

"vec_malloc"

"calloc"

"free"

"realloc"

Refer to "Example of calloc() usage.".