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| author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-05 14:00:46 +0000 |
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| committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-02-05 14:00:46 +0000 |
| commit | 837debed575634b272e7fa68fc4a50f30722ab53 (patch) | |
| tree | 784e284b89c2f076ac3977f73f911e02af6a6f39 /share/man/man9/malloc.9 | |
| parent | 7018edab0b1662ae72c1289f2f59441b33c6fcce (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-837debed575634b272e7fa68fc4a50f30722ab53.zip FreeBSD-src-837debed575634b272e7fa68fc4a50f30722ab53.tar.gz | |
The .Fn function
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/malloc.9')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/malloc.9 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 index 5626529..ad5ccc4 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 @@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ function allocates uninitialized memory in kernel address space for an object whose size is specified by .Fa size . .Pp +The .Fn free -releases memory at address +function releases memory at address .Fa addr that was previously allocated by .Fn malloc @@ -156,11 +157,12 @@ rather than block. Note that .Dv M_NOWAIT is required when running in an interrupt context. +The .Fn malloc , .Fn realloc , and .Fn reallocf -can only return +functions can only return .Dv NULL if .Dv M_NOWAIT @@ -205,12 +207,13 @@ MALLOC(buf, struct foo_buf *, sizeof *buf, M_FOOBUF, M_NOWAIT); .Ed .Sh RETURN VALUES +The .Fn malloc , .Fn realloc , and .Fn reallocf -return a kernel virtual address that is suitably aligned for storage of -any type of object, or +functions return a kernel virtual address that is suitably aligned for +storage of any type of object, or .Dv NULL if the request could not be satisfied (implying that .Dv M_NOWAIT |
