$ whatis lscd file cat more less ls (1) - list directory contents ls (1p) - list directory contents cd (1) - bash built-in commands, see bash(1) cd (1p) - change the working directory cd (n) - Change working directory file (1) - determine file type file (1p) - determine file type file (n) - Manipulate file names and attributes cat (1) - concatenate files and print on the standard output cat (1p) - concatenate and print files more (1) - file perusal filter for crt viewing more (1p) - display files on a page-by-page basis less (1) - opposite of more less (3pm) - perl pragma to request less of something
main1.c:3:1: warning: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int] main() ^ 1 warning generated. gcc -o main2 main2.c main2.c:3:1: warning: returntype of 'main' is not 'int' [-Wmain-return-type] void main() ^ main2.c:3:1: note: change returntype to 'int' void main() ^~~~ int 1 warning generated.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
reallocarray():
Since glibc 2.29:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE
Glibc 2.28 and earlier:
_GNU_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION The malloc() function allocates size bytes and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is not initialized. If size is 0, then malloc() returns either NULL, or a unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to free().
The free() function frees the memory space pointed to by ptr, which must have been returned by a previous call to malloc(), calloc(), or realloc(). Otherwise, or if free(ptr) has al‐
ready been called before, undefined behavior occurs. If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed.
The calloc() function allocates memory for an array of nmemb elements of size bytes each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The memory is set to zero. If nmemb or size
is 0, then calloc() returns either NULL, or a unique pointer value that can later be successfully passed to free(). If the multiplication of nmemb and size would result in integer
overflow, then calloc() returns an error. By contrast, an integer overflow would not be detected in the following call to malloc(), with the result that an incorrectly sized block of
memory would be allocated:
malloc(nmemb * size);
The realloc() function changes the size of the memory block pointed to by ptr to size bytes. The contents will be unchanged in the range from the start of the region up to the mini‐
mum of the old and new sizes. If the new size is larger than the old size, the added memory will not be initialized. If ptr is NULL, then the call is equivalent to malloc(size), for
all values of size; if size is equal to zero, and ptr is not NULL, then the call is equivalent to free(ptr). Unless ptr is NULL, it must have been returned by an earlier call to mal‐
loc(), calloc(), or realloc(). If the area pointed to was moved, a free(ptr) is done.
The reallocarray() function changes the size of the memory block pointed to by ptr to be large enough for an array of nmemb elements, each of which is size bytes. It is equivalent to
the call
realloc(ptr, nmemb * size);
However, unlike that realloc() call, reallocarray() fails safely in the case where the multiplication would overflow. If such an overflow occurs, reallocarray() returns NULL, sets
errno to ENOMEM, and leaves the original block of memory unchanged.
RETURN VALUE The malloc() and calloc() functions return a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any built-in type. On error, these functions return NULL. NULL may also be returned by a successful call to malloc() with a size of zero, or by a successful call to calloc() with nmemb or size equal to zero.
The free() function returns no value.
The realloc() function returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any built-in type, or NULL if the request failed. The returned pointer may be
the same as ptr if the allocation was not moved (e.g., there was room to expand the allocation in-place), or different from ptr if the allocation was moved to a new address. If size
was equal to 0, either NULL or a pointer suitable to be passed to free() is returned. If realloc() fails, the original block is left untouched; it is not freed or moved.
On success, the reallocarray() function returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory. On failure, it returns NULL and the original block of memory is left untouched.
ERRORS calloc(), malloc(), realloc(), and reallocarray() can fail with the following error:
ENOMEM Out of memory. Possibly, the application hit the RLIMIT_AS or RLIMIT_DATA limit described in getrlimit(2).
ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
CONFORMING TO malloc(), free(), calloc(), realloc(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99.
reallocarray() is a nonstandard extension that first appeared in OpenBSD 5.6 and FreeBSD 11.0.
NOTES By default, Linux follows an optimistic memory allocation strategy. This means that when malloc() returns non-NULL there is no guarantee that the memory really is available. In case it turns out that the system is out of memory, one or more processes will be killed by the OOM killer. For more information, see the description of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory and /proc/sys/vm/oom_adj in proc(5), and the Linux kernel source file Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst.
Normally, malloc() allocates memory from the heap, and adjusts the size of the heap as required, using sbrk(2). When allocating blocks of memory larger than MMAP_THRESHOLD bytes, the
glibc malloc() implementation allocates the memory as a private anonymous mapping using mmap(2). MMAP_THRESHOLD is 128 kB by default, but is adjustable using mallopt(3). Prior to
Linux 4.7 allocations performed using mmap(2) were unaffected by the RLIMIT_DATA resource limit; since Linux 4.7, this limit is also enforced for allocations performed using mmap(2).
To avoid corruption in multithreaded applications, mutexes are used internally to protect the memory-management data structures employed by these functions. In a multithreaded appli‐
cation in which threads simultaneously allocate and free memory, there could be contention for these mutexes. To scalably handle memory allocation in multithreaded applications,
glibc creates additional memory allocation arenas if mutex contention is detected. Each arena is a large region of memory that is internally allocated by the system (using brk(2) or
mmap(2)), and managed with its own mutexes.
SUSv2 requires malloc(), calloc(), and realloc() to set errno to ENOMEM upon failure. Glibc assumes that this is done (and the glibc versions of these routines do this); if you use a
private malloc implementation that does not set errno, then certain library routines may fail without having a reason in errno.
Crashes in malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), or free() are almost always related to heap corruption, such as overflowing an allocated chunk or freeing the same pointer twice.
The malloc() implementation is tunable via environment variables; see mallopt(3) for details.
SEE ALSO valgrind(1), brk(2), mmap(2), alloca(3), malloc_get_state(3), malloc_info(3), malloc_trim(3), malloc_usable_size(3), mallopt(3), mcheck(3), mtrace(3), posix_memalign(3)
For details of the GNU C library implementation, see ⟨https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MallocInternals⟩.
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main1.c:3:1: warning: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int] main() ^ 1 warning generated. gcc -o main2 main2.c main2.c:3:1: warning: returntype of 'main' is not 'int' [-Wmain-return-type] void main() ^ main2.c:3:1: note: change returntype to 'int' void main() ^~~~ int 1 warning generated.