158f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 358f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 558f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 658f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" are met: 758f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 858f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 958f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 1058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 1158f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 1258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 1358f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 1458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 1558f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 1658f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 1758f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 1858f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" without specific prior written permission. 1958f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 2058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 2158f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 2258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 2358f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 2458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 2558f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 2658f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 2758f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 2858f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 2958f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 3058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 3158f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 3258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" @(#)valloc.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 337f3dea24SPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$ 3458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.\" 3543326ef7SJason Evans.Dd September 13, 2005 3658f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Dt VALLOC 3 37a307d598SRuslan Ermilov.Os 3858f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME 3958f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Nm valloc 4058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Nd aligned memory allocation function 4125bb73e0SAlexey Zelkin.Sh LIBRARY 4225bb73e0SAlexey Zelkin.Lb libc 4358f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS 4432eef9aeSRuslan Ermilov.In unistd.h 45a3315650SBruce Evans.Ft void * 46a3315650SBruce Evans.Fn valloc "size_t size" 4758f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION 4858f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Bf -symbolic 496575e6daSRuslan ErmilovThe 506575e6daSRuslan Ermilov.Fn valloc 5143326ef7SJason Evansfunction is obsoleted by 5243326ef7SJason Evans.Xr posix_memalign 3 , 5343326ef7SJason Evanswhich can be used to request page-aligned allocations. 5458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Ef 5558f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Pp 5658f0484fSRodney W. GrimesThe 5758f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Fn valloc 5858f0484fSRodney W. Grimesfunction 5958f0484fSRodney W. Grimesallocates 6058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Fa size 6158f0484fSRodney W. Grimesbytes aligned on a page boundary. 6258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Sh RETURN VALUES 6358f0484fSRodney W. GrimesThe 6458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Fn valloc 6558f0484fSRodney W. Grimesfunction returns 6658f0484fSRodney W. Grimesa pointer to the allocated space if successful; otherwise 6743326ef7SJason Evansa null pointer is returned. 6843326ef7SJason Evans.Sh SEE ALSO 6943326ef7SJason Evans.Xr posix_memalign 3 7058f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY 7158f0484fSRodney W. GrimesThe 7258f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Fn valloc 7358f0484fSRodney W. Grimesfunction appeared in 7458f0484fSRodney W. Grimes.Bx 3.0 . 7543326ef7SJason Evans.Pp 7643326ef7SJason EvansThe 7743326ef7SJason Evans.Fn valloc 7843326ef7SJason Evansfunction correctly allocated memory that could be deallocated via 7943326ef7SJason Evans.Fn free 8043326ef7SJason Evansin 8143326ef7SJason Evans.Bx 7.0 . 82