AUTALLOCHEAP(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet autallocheap — it's a heap memory allocator 🫶 and it lives in the AUT FUNCTIONS part of the manual, which is the (3) in AUTALLOCHEAP(3) 💅 that's the whole vibe.

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🌍 ORIGIN 🌍

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. 🇫🇷✨

• Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/
• E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

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📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

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

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🧚 PARAMETERS 🧚

• Size — the number of memory bytes you want allocated contiguously, like one big uninterrupted lil chunk 🍓

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

autallocheap returns a block of Size bytes length, allocated on the heap. 🌸

And the block? set to zero. Clean slate energy, no cap 🧼✨

Also, its use is strongly encouraged when the Size is very small — so like, tiny allocations? this is your girl 👑💅

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

autallocheap returns a pointer to a Size bytes long block. that's it, that's the return, iconic behavior 🎀

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💀 ERRORS 💀

• "autalloc: alloc error, can't continue !" — this one means the system break can't be moved anymore, and no more memory can be retrieved from the system. like, the well is dry, there's nothing left to give 😭 it's giving end of the road.

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

#include "aut101.h"
typedef struct bipointer
{
  struct bipointer ∗NEXT;
  void             ∗DATA;
} bipointer;
bipointer ∗addbipointer( Data );
  void ∗Data;
{
  bipointer ∗Bp = (bipointer ∗)autallocheap( sizeof( bipointer ) );
  Bp->DATA = Data; return Bp;
}

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

aut(1), autresizeblock(3), autallocblock(3), autfreeblock(3), autfreeheap(3).

go read those too bestie, the whole friend group ate 🫶💜

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🐛 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're literally asking — send the feedback, bestie 📬💖

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and that's a wrap on AUTALLOCHEAP(3), brought to you by ASIM/LIP6 and dated October 1, 1997 — yes she's an elder icon and she still serves 💅👑