Manual Pages  — VALLOC

valloc – aligned memory allocation function

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO HISTORY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <unistd.h>

void *
valloc(size_t size);

The valloc() function returns a pointer to the allocated space if successful; otherwise a null pointer is returned.

The valloc() function appeared in BSD 3.0 .

The valloc() function correctly allocated memory that could be deallocated via free() starting in FreeBSD 7.0 .