AUTALLOCHEAP(3)

okay bestie, buckle up 💅 you're reading the autallocheap(3) page — it lives in the AUT FUNCTIONS section of the manual, and it's honestly kind of a little legend. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

autallocheap — heap memory allocator

✨ ORIGIN ✨

so this software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, which was developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Paris!! the math girlies ate 🇫🇷🥐

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

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• Size — the number of memory bytes you want allocated contiguously, i.e. all in one cute little row next to each other 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

autallocheap returns a block of Size bytes in length, allocated on the heap. and here's the slay part: the memory block is set to zero ✨ no mysterious garbage, no cursed leftovers, just clean zeros.

its use is strongly encouraged when the Size is very small — like, tiny-Size is literally its whole moment, its main character era 👑

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

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

💀 ERRORS 💀

• "autalloc: alloc error, can't continue !" — this happens when the system break can't be moved anymore, so no more memory can be retrieved from the system. ngl that's a whole mood killer 😭

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

#include "aut101.h"
typedef struct bipointer
{
  struct bipointer ∗NEXT;
  void             ∗DATA;
} bipointer;
bipointer ∗addbipointer( Data );
  void ∗Data;
{
  bipointer ∗Bp = (bipointer ∗)autallocheap( sizeof( bipointer ) );
  Bp->DATA = Data; return Bp;
}

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

aut(1), autresizeblock(3), autallocblock(3), autfreeblock(3), autfreeheap(3).

iykyk, go read the whole family 💅

👑 BUG REPORT 👑

this tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. we need your feedback to improve documentation and tools — fr fr, your feedback matters, don't leave them on read 🙈

mwah that's the page, bestie — this one came from ASIM/LIP6 and it's dated October 1, 1997, so it's giving vintage icon energy 🌸✨