NAME
Tcl_Alloc, Tcl_Free, Tcl_Realloc - allocate or free heap
memory
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
char *
Tcl_Alloc(size)
Tcl_Free(ptr)
char *
Tcl_Realloc(ptr, size)
ARGUMENTS
int size (in) Size in bytes of the memory block
to allocate.
char *ptr (in) Pointer to memory block to free
or realloc.
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DESCRIPTION
These procedures provide a platform and compiler indepen
dent interface for memory allocation. Programs that need
to transfer ownership of memory blocks between Tcl and
other modules should use these routines rather than the
native malloc() and free() routines provided by the C run-
time library.
Tcl_Alloc returns a pointer to a block of at least size
bytes suitably aligned for any use.
Tcl_Free makes the space referred to by ptr available for
further allocation.
Tcl_Realloc changes the size of the block pointed to by
ptr to size bytes and returns a pointer to the new block.
The contents will be unchanged up to the lesser of the new
and old sizes. The returned location may be different
from ptr.
KEYWORDS
alloc, allocation, free, malloc, memory, realloc
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