malloc.c

The libc implementation

Author

Martin ‘Solar’ Baute

License

Public Domain

Summary
malloc.cThe libc implementation
Todo’s
Primitive placeholder.  Much room for improvement.
Functions
mallocAllocates size bytes of memory
Todo’s
Shouldn’t realloc() split the now much-too-large node?

Todo’s

Primitive placeholder.  Much room for improvement.

Functions

malloc

void * malloc(size_t size)

Allocates size bytes of memory

Returns a pointer to the allocated memory location.

Returns NULL if the memory could not be allocated.

Todo’s

Shouldn’t realloc() split the now much-too-large node?

void * malloc(size_t size)
Allocates size bytes of memory