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malloc

noun, verb — 2 senses

malloc

noun

Etymology Blend of map + allocate.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.

  • It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.2001, USENIX Association, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference:

malloc

verb

Etymology Blend of map + allocate.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.

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