ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Malloc

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Malloc is a noun meaning (computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.

Meaning

(computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.

Example Sentences

It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include allocator, freestore, heap, slab, memory hole, library.

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