docs: Move the memory SECTION

Move it to a separate page.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>

Helps: #3037

docs/reference/glib/glib.toml.in

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ content_files = [
   "conversion-macros.md",
   "auto-cleanup.md",
 
+  "memory.md",
   "memory-slices.md",
   "error-reporting.md",
   "logging.md",

docs/reference/glib/memory.md

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+Title: Memory Allocation
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2000, 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 Emmanuele Bassi
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Pavlo Solntsev
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Endless Mobile, Inc.
+
+# Memory Allocation
+
+These functions provide support for allocating and freeing memory.
+
+If any call to allocate memory using functions [func@GLib.new],
+[func@GLib.new0], [func@GLib.renew], [func@GLib.malloc], [func@GLib.malloc0],
+[func@GLib.malloc0_n], [func@GLib.realloc] and [func@GLib.realloc_n]
+fails, the application is terminated. This also means that there is no
+need to check if the call succeeded.
+
+On the other hand, the `g_try_…()` family of functions returns `NULL` on failure
+that can be used as a check for unsuccessful memory allocation. The application
+is not terminated in this case.
+
+As all GLib functions and data structures use [func@GLib.malloc] internally,
+unless otherwise specified, any allocation failure will result in the
+application being terminated.
+
+It’s important to match [func@GLib.malloc] (and wrappers such as
+[func@GLib.new]) with [func@GLib.free], [func@GLib.slice_alloc] (and wrappers
+such as [func@GLib.slice_new]) with [func@GLib.slice_free], plain
+[`malloc()`](man:malloc(3)) with [`free()`](man:free(3)), and (if you’re using
+C++) `new` with `delete` and `new[]` with `delete[]`. Otherwise bad things can
+happen, since these allocators may use different memory pools (and
+`new`/`delete` call constructors and destructors).
+
+Since GLib 2.46, [func@GLib.malloc] is hardcoded to always use the system malloc
+implementation.
+
+## Struct Allocations
+
+ * [func@GLib.new]
+ * [func@GLib.new0]
+ * [func@GLib.renew]
+ * [func@GLib.try_new]
+ * [func@GLib.try_new0]
+ * [func@GLib.try_renew]
+
+## Block Allocations
+
+ * [func@GLib.malloc]
+ * [func@GLib.malloc0]
+ * [func@GLib.realloc]
+ * [func@GLib.try_malloc]
+ * [func@GLib.try_malloc0]
+ * [func@GLib.try_realloc]
+ * [func@GLib.malloc_n]
+ * [func@GLib.malloc0_n]
+ * [func@GLib.realloc_n]
+ * [func@GLib.try_malloc_n]
+ * [func@GLib.try_malloc0_n]
+ * [func@GLib.try_realloc_n]
+
+## Free Functions
+
+ * [func@GLib.free]
+ * [func@GLib.free_sized]
+ * [func@GLib.clear_pointer]
+ * [func@GLib.steal_pointer]
+
+In addition, the `g_mem_gc_friendly` exported variable will be true if GLib has
+been [run with `G_DEBUG=gc-friendly`](running.html#environment-variables). If
+so, memory to be freed will be cleared to zero before being freed.
+
+## Stack Allocations
+
+ * [func@GLib.alloca]
+ * [func@GLib.alloca0]
+ * [func@GLib.newa]
+ * [func@GLib.newa0]
+
+## Aligned Allocations
+
+ * [func@GLib.aligned_alloc]
+ * [func@GLib.aligned_alloc0]
+ * [func@GLib.aligned_free]
+ * [func@GLib.aligned_free_sized]
+
+## Copies and Moves
+
+ * [func@GLib.memmove]
+ * [func@GLib.memdup2]
+
+## Deprecated API
+
+ * [func@GLib.memdup]
+ * [struct@GLib.MemVTable]
+ * [func@GLib.mem_set_vtable]
+ * [func@GLib.mem_is_system_malloc]
+ * `glib_mem_profiler_table` exported variable
+ * [func@GLib.mem_profile]
+

docs/reference/glib/meson.build

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ expand_content_files = [
   'i18n.md',
   'logging.md',
   'main-loop.md',
+  'memory.md',
   'memory-slices.md',
   'random.md',
   'reference-counting.md',