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pvalloc

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-1-13
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pvalloc - pag-sized pag-aligned memory allocation

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)

#include <malloc.h>
[[deprecated]] void *pvalloc(size_t size);

pvalloc() is similar to valloc(), but rounds the size of the allocation up to the next multiple of the system page size.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
pvalloc()	Thread safety	M-Unsafe init

GNU.

glibc 2.0.

See valloc(3).