NAME

valloc — aligned memory allocation function

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

void *
valloc(size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

The valloc() function is obsoleted by posix_memalign(3), which can be used to request page-aligned allocations.

The valloc() function allocates size bytes aligned on a page boundary.

RETURN VALUES

The valloc() function returns a pointer to the allocated space if successful; otherwise a null pointer is returned.

SEE ALSO

posix_memalign(3)

HISTORY

The valloc() function appeared in 3.0BSD.

The valloc() function correctly allocated memory that could be deallocated via free() starting in FreeBSD 7.0.