Allocates memory on a 16 bit alignment.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

Altivec

void *	vec_malloc(size_t size);

Parameters for this facility are:

size

size_t

The size in bytes of the allocation

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

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

"malloc"

"vec_free"

"vec_calloc"

"vec_realloc"