LDAP_MEMORY(3)

💖 LDAP_MEMORY(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual entry for LDAP_MEMORY(3) — this is the OpenLDAP memory management girlie and she is literally here to hand you the keys to all the memory the LDAP library touches 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ldap_memfree, ldap_memvfree, ldap_memalloc, ldap_memcalloc, ldap_memrealloc, ldap_strdup — the LDAP memory allocation routines. yes, all six of them. we stan a full squad 🫶

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🎀 LIBRARY 🎀

OpenLDAP LDAP (libldap, -lldap) — that's the vibe, that's the library 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ldap.h>

void ldap_memfree(void *p);

void ldap_memvfree(void **v);

void *ldap_memalloc(ber_len_t s);

void *ldap_memcalloc(ber_len_t n, ber_len_t s);

void *ldap_memrealloc(void *p, ber_len_t s);

char *ldap_strdup(LDAP_CONST char *p);

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so these routines are the ones you use to allocate and deallocate the memory that the LDAP library uses and returns — like, it's the library's own memory economy and you're just living in it 🧚

ldap_memalloc(), ldap_memcalloc(), ldap_memrealloc(), and ldap_memfree() are used exactly like the standard malloc(3), calloc(3), realloc(3), and free(3) routines, respectively. no cap, same energy, same usage — just the LDAP-flavored version ✨

ldap_memvfree() is the one that's a little different — it's used to free a dynamically allocated array of pointers to arbitrary dynamically allocated objects. yes, that is a whole mouthful, and yes, it ate 💀 basically: array of pointers? it frees that whole situation for you.

ldap_strdup() is used exactly like the standard strdup(3) routine. iconic, consistent, no notes 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ldap(3) — go read that one too, bestie, iykyk 💜

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. and fun fact: OpenLDAP Software is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release 🎓✨

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little sign-off from the page itself: this was OpenLDAP 2.6.16, dated 2026/10/21, and it's the LDAP_MEMORY(3) page — mwah, slay, bye 💅🎀