VistaIONew(3)

📦 version 1.2.19, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ VistaIONew — allocate storage for an instance of a data type ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is short and sweet and honestly a little iconic 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS

#include <vistaio.h>

type *VistaIONew (type)
       type;

🎀 ARGUMENTS

  • type — a data type you already declared earlier. that's it. that's the whole input. she's low maintenance like that 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION

VistaIONew grabs you some storage for one instance of a data type. it's not out here doing heavy lifting — it's a convenience macro, a lil helper, and what it does is call VistaIOMalloc(3) with these arguments:

((type *) VistaIOMalloc (sizeof (type))

so like. it's giving "I'll do the casting for you so you don't have to" ✨ the way that it just handles sizeof and the cast and everything?? obsessed. no cap.

⭐ RETURN VALUES

VistaIONew returns a pointer to the allocated storage. boom. that's your pointer. you're welcome 💜

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS

if there is insufficient memory to allocate the new block, VistaIONew does not return — it terminates by calling VistaIOError(3) with the message `` Out of memory ''. so yeah. that's a whole dramatic exit 😭 not a quiet one.

🌈 SEE ALSO

iykyk, go read those next bestie 🦋

👑 AUTHOR

Art Pope <pope@cs.ubc.ca>

Adaption to vistaio: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com>

🧚 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

this macro and this manual page are based on similar ones included in the X Toolkit Intrinsics, which is Copyright 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts. shoutout to the OGs fr fr 💖

aaaand that's the whole page bestie, we ate 🍓 this is VistaIO Version 1.2.14, dated 24 April 1993 — yes she's older than us and still slaying, main character energy forever ✨💅👑

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