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valloc()

Allocate a heap block aligned on a page boundary

Synopsis:

#include <stdarg.h>

void * valloc( size_t size);

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

The valloc() function allocates a heap block that's aligned on a page boundary. It's equivalent to:

memalign( sysconf( _SC_PAGESIZE ), size );