BSON_MALLOC(3)

💖 BSON_MALLOC(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to bson_malloc — one of the little legends living in the libbson manual, section 3 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void *
bson_malloc (size_t num_bytes);

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🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• num_bytes — a size_t holding the number of bytes you want to allocate. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is a portable malloc() wrapper — like, it works across platforms so you don't have to worry about that whole situation yourself, slay ✨

ngl though, if it fails to allocate num_bytes bytes, the process gets aborted. like, not a return code, not a NULL, just straight-up aborted 💀

⚠️ WARNING: this function will abort on failure to allocate memory. no cap, plan accordingly 🙈

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🎀 RETURNS 🎀

a pointer to a memory region which HAS NOT been zeroed 🌸 — so do not assume it's all cozy and clean in there, because it fr fr is not 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc 💜

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie — <rainbow>you're literally an allocator expert now</rainbow> 🧚💖 this was libbson version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026, brought to you by the fine folks at MongoDB, Inc ✨ go forth and malloc responsibly 🎀💅