malloc
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]malloc (plural mallocs)
- (computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
- 2001, USENIX Association, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference:
- It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.
Verb
[edit]malloc (third-person singular simple present mallocs, present participle mallocing, simple past and past participle malloced)
- (computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.
References
[edit]- Denis Howe (1985–) “malloc”, in Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ^ Diomidis Spinellis (2017 September 14) “The Origins of Malloc”, in blog dds[1], archived from the original on 2017-09-14.
Further reading
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C dynamic memory allocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
