malloc

The malloc function allocates a memory block from the memory pool of size bytes in length.

Note

The malloc function returns a pointer to the allocated block or a null pointer if there is not enough memory to satisfy the allocation request.

calloc, free, init_mempool, realloc

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h> /* for printf */

void tst_malloc (void) {
   *p;

  p = malloc (1000); /* allocate 1000 bytes */

  if (p == 0)
    printf ("Not enough memory space\n");
  else
    printf ("Memory allocated\n");
}