AUTALLOCBLOCK(3)

📦 version 5.1.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 AUTALLOCBLOCK(3) — autallocblock 💖

ok bestie, we're in the AUT FUNCTIONS section of the manual, and today's main character is autallocblock. it's a memory allocator. it gives you memory. it zeroes it out for you. it's giving generous. it's giving clean. slay. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

autallocblock — memory allocator 💅

🌸 ORIGIN 🌸

ok so this software? it belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. 🇫🇷 iconic behaviour honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

🌈 PARAMETERS 🌈

  • Size — the number of memory bytes to be contiguously allocated. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so autallocblock returns a block of Size bytes length. and the memory block? it is set to zero. no leftover garbage from whatever was living there before, no mystery crumbs, just clean zeroed memory. obsessed. 🫶

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

autallocblock returns a pointer to a Size bytes long block. periodt. 💅

😭 ERRORS 😭

  • "autalloc: alloc error, can't continue !" — this is the system break can't be moved anymore moment, meaning no more memory can be retrieved from the system. it's a whole crisis. there is no coming back from this one, bestie. 💀

🧚 EXAMPLE 🧚

here's the example, verbatim, exactly as the ancestors wrote it:

#include "aut101.h"
char ∗dup_str(s)
  char ∗ s;
{
  char ∗t = (char ∗)autalocblock(strlen(s) + (unsigned int)1);
  strcpy(t, s); return t;
}
no cap, copy this exactly as-is. the ∗ characters and everything. 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

🔥 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, they want to hear from you, so spill. 💌

🎀 the sign-off 🎀

that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from ASIM/LIP6, and it's dated October 1, 1997 — yes, a certified vintage classic, and it still ate. go forth and allocate responsibly. 💖✨🦋🌸

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