AUTALLOCBLOCK(3)

💅 AUTALLOCBLOCK(3) — the aut functions chronicles 🎀

ok so bestie, welcome to AUTALLOCBLOCK(3) from the AUT FUNCTIONS series — grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

autallocblock — it's a memory allocator, that's the whole vibe 🧚

🌈 ORIGIN 🌈

ok so this software is literally part of the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France 🇫🇷✨ iconic behavior honestly.

• Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/
• E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "aut101.h"
char *autallocblock( Size )
   unsigned int Size;

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• Size — the number of memory bytes to be contiguously allocated. like, all of them, in a row, no gaps, no drama 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

autallocblock returns a block of Size bytes length. and here's the cute part: the memory block is set to zero. brand new, squeaky clean, zeroed out, main character energy ✨

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

autallocblock returns a pointer to a Size bytes long block. that's it, that's the tea 🫶

💀 ERRORS 💀

• "autalloc: alloc error, can't continue !" — yeah so this means the system break can't be moved anymore, and no more memory can be retrieved from the system. ngl, at that point it's over 😭

⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

#include "aut101.h"
char ∗dup_str(s)
  char ∗ s;
{
  char ∗t = (char ∗)autalocblock(strlen(s) + (unsigned int)1);
  strcpy(t, s); return t;
}

fr fr copy this exactly — autalocblock and all — do not come for me about the spelling, it's verbatim from the source bestie 🙈

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• aut(1)
• autresizeblock(3)
• autallocheap(3)
• autfreeblock(3)
• autfreeheap(3)

🐛 BUG REPORT 🐛

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools — so like, please tell them things, they're literally asking 🙏💜

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 brought to you by ASIM/LIP6, dated October 1, 1997 — yes, a vintage icon 👑, slay forever 🎀🦋💖