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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Valloc is obsoleted by the current version of malloc(3) , which aligns page-sized and larger allocations. The function allocates bytes aligned on a page boundary. It is implemented by calling with a slightly larger request, saving the true beginning of the block allocated, and returning a properly aligned pointer.

RETURN VALUES

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

HISTORY

The function appeared in

BUGS

A function has not been implemented.


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