LBER_MEMORY(3)

💖 LBER_MEMORY(3) — the lber_memory girlies 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to lber_memory(3) 💅 this is the page for the OpenLDAP LBER memory allocators, and honestly? it's giving "short but essential." let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ber_memalloc, ber_memcalloc, ber_memrealloc, ber_memfree, ber_memvfree — the OpenLDAP LBER memory allocators 🎀

📚 LIBRARY 📚

OpenLDAP LBER (liblber, -llber) — like, that's the one you link against, no cap 🌸

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <lber.h>

void *ber_memalloc(ber_len_t bytes);

void *ber_memcalloc(ber_len_t nelems, ber_len_t bytes);

void *ber_memrealloc(void *ptr, ber_len_t bytes);

void ber_memfree(void *ptr);

void ber_memvfree(void **vec);

look at those signatures. iconic. memorized. 💖

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🌟 DESCRIPTION 🌟

so here's the tea 🍓 these routines are literally what you use to allocate and deallocate memory that's used or returned by the Lightweight BER library, as required by lber-encode(3) and lber-decode(3). iykyk.

and here's the part that makes it easy: ber_memalloc(), ber_memcalloc(), ber_memrealloc(), and ber_memfree() work exactly like the standard malloc(3), calloc(3), realloc(3), and free(3) routines. respectively. literally the same energy, just LBER-flavored ✨

then there's ber_memvfree() — the special one, the main character 👑 — it frees a dynamically allocated array of pointers to arbitrary dynamically allocated objects. so like, an array of pointers, and every one of those pointers points at something else that was also dynamically allocated. all of it goes. gone. bye 💀

bestie note: match your allocators to your library, okay? don't be out here mixing and matching when the BER library is the one handing you memory. 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• lber-decode(3)
• lber-encode(3)
• lber-types(3)

go read those next, they're the friends of this page 🌸

🫶 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🫶

OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. 💜

and also — OpenLDAP Software is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. shoutout to the ancestors 🎀✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅 this was OpenLDAP 2.6.13+dfsg-1ubuntu3, dated 2026/03/09 — mwah, go forth and free your memory properly 🌈💖