valloc
—
aligned memory allocation function
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
#include
<unistd.h>
void *
valloc
(
size_t
size);
The
valloc
() function is obsoleted by
posix_memalign(3),
which can be used to request page-aligned allocations.
The
valloc
() function allocates
size bytes aligned on a page boundary.
The
valloc
() function returns a pointer to
the allocated space if successful; otherwise a null pointer is returned.
posix_memalign(3)
The
valloc
() function appeared in
3.0BSD.
The
valloc
() function correctly allocated
memory that could be deallocated via
free
()
starting in
FreeBSD 7.0.