TIFFMEMORY(3tiff)

💖 TIFFMEMORY 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to TIFFMEMORY(3tiff) from the LibTIFF fam — this is the page about all the memory-management stuff you use when you're working with TIFF files ✨ buckle up, it's short but it's iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TIFFmemory — memory management-related functions for use with TIFF files 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <tiffio.h>

void *_TIFFmalloc(tmsize_t size)

void *_TIFFrealloc(void *buffer, tmsize_t size)

void _TIFFfree(void *buffer)

void _TIFFmemset(void *s, int c, tmsize_t n)

void _TIFFmemcpy(void *dest, const void *src, tmsize_t n)

int _TIFFmemcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, tmsize_t n)

void *_TIFFCheckMalloc(TIFF *tif, tmsize_t nmemb, tmsize_t elem_size,
const char *what)

void *_TIFFCheckRealloc(TIFF *tif, void *buffer, tmsize_t nmemb,
tmsize_t elem_size, const char *what)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so these routines? they exist so you can write portable software that uses libtiff 🫶 they hide all the memory-management drama from you — like dealing with segmented architectures, which is a whole thing that happens on 16-bit machines 😭 literally the plot twist nobody asked for.

_TIFFmalloc() and _TIFFrealloc() are the ones you call to dynamically allocate and reallocate memory that libtiff uses — think memory you're passing into the I/O routines 👑 and whenever you grab memory through these interfaces, you give it back to the system with the _TIFFfree() routine. no hoarding, bestie, it's giving ✨responsible✨.

memory you got from one of those interfaces can be set to a known value with _TIFFmemset(), copied to another memory location with _TIFFmemcpy(), or compared for equality with _TIFFmemcmp() 🌈 and here's the cute part: these routines conform to the equivalent C routines — memset(), memcpy(), and memcmp(), respectively. same energy, different name 💅

then there's _TIFFCheckMalloc() and _TIFFCheckRealloc() — these check for integer overflow before calling _TIFFmalloc() and _TIFFrealloc(), respectively 🔥 so yeah, they're the ones holding it down and keeping things safe.

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👀 DIAGNOSTICS 👀

None. that's it. nothing. silence. the drama-free queen 🌸

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• malloc (3)
• memory (3)
• libtiff (3tiff)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

LibTIFF contributors — legends, honestly 🫶

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors

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no cap, that's the whole page. memory management but make it cute 💖

okay bye bestie, this was TIFFMEMORY(3tiff), version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅✨🎀