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
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.