carta
bson_malloc(3)

bson_malloc3

Parameters

•

num_bytes: A size_t containing the number of bytes to allocate.

Overview

This is a portable malloc() wrapper.

In general, this function will return an allocation at least sizeof(void*) bytes or bigger.

If there was a failure to allocate num_bytes bytes, the process will be aborted.

WARNING:

This function will abort on failure to allocate memory.

Returns

A pointer to a memory region which HAS NOT been zeroed.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

Author

MongoDB, Inc

From libbson-doc 1.30.4-1+deb13u3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.