LBER_MEMORY(3)

💖 LBER_MEMORY(3) — the OpenLDAP LBER memory allocators bestie 💖

okay so this is the <pink>Library Functions Manual</pink> page for LBER_MEMORY, and it's literally all about the OpenLDAP LBER memory allocators. no cap, it's a short one, but it's lowkey essential, so 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 💅

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

OpenLDAP LBER (liblber, -llber) — that's the vibe, that's the library 🦋

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🌸 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);

like, copy that exactly, bestie — every signature is here for a reason and i'm not about to mess with them 🔥

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so these routines are the ones you use to allocate and deallocate memory that gets used and returned by the Lightweight BER library — and that's exactly what's required by lber-encode(3) and lber-decode(3), iykyk 🧚

here's the group chat breakdown:

• ber_memalloc(), ber_memcalloc(), ber_memrealloc(), and ber_memfree() — you use these exactly like the standard malloc(3), calloc(3), realloc(3), and free(3) routines respectively. like, same energy, same behaviour, no surprises. slay 🙈
• ber_memvfree() — this one's the special icon 👑 it's used to free a dynamically allocated array of pointers to arbitrary dynamically allocated objects</star>. yes, a whole vector of pointers, all freed at once. it's giving cleanup main character energy 💀

ngl, the "exactly like the standard ones" thing is the whole point — so if you already know malloc/calloc/realloc/free, you already know four of these five. the fifth one is the vector-freeing one, and it's right there in the list for you 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

go read those if you want the full ✨lore✨

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/> — and it's derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. giving credit where credit is due, periodt 🎀

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mwah, that's the whole page. this beauty is from OpenLDAP 2.6.16, dated 2026/10/21, and it's the LBER_MEMORY(3) page — go forth and allocate responsibly, bestie 💜🌸