alloc
Description:
Allocates a block of memory from the slice allocator.
The block address handed out can be expected to be aligned to at least `1 * sizeof (void*)`, though in general slices are `2 * sizeof (void*)` bytes aligned; if a `malloc()` fallback implementation is used instead, the alignment may be reduced in a libc dependent fashion.
Note that the underlying slice allocation mechanism can be changed with the `G_SLICE=always-malloc` environment variable.
Parameters:
block_size |
the number of bytes to allocate |
Returns:
a pointer to the allocated memory block, which will be null if and only if |
Namespace: GLib.Slice
Package: glib-2.0