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Move it to a separate page. Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> Helps: #3037
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"conversion-macros.md",
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"auto-cleanup.md",
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"memory.md",
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"memory-slices.md",
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"error-reporting.md",
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"logging.md",
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docs/reference/glib/memory.md
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docs/reference/glib/memory.md
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Title: Memory Allocation
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2000, 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 Emmanuele Bassi
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Pavlo Solntsev
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Endless Mobile, Inc.
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# Memory Allocation
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These functions provide support for allocating and freeing memory.
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If any call to allocate memory using functions [func@GLib.new],
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[func@GLib.new0], [func@GLib.renew], [func@GLib.malloc], [func@GLib.malloc0],
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[func@GLib.malloc0_n], [func@GLib.realloc] and [func@GLib.realloc_n]
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fails, the application is terminated. This also means that there is no
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need to check if the call succeeded.
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On the other hand, the `g_try_…()` family of functions returns `NULL` on failure
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that can be used as a check for unsuccessful memory allocation. The application
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is not terminated in this case.
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As all GLib functions and data structures use [func@GLib.malloc] internally,
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unless otherwise specified, any allocation failure will result in the
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application being terminated.
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It’s important to match [func@GLib.malloc] (and wrappers such as
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[func@GLib.new]) with [func@GLib.free], [func@GLib.slice_alloc] (and wrappers
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such as [func@GLib.slice_new]) with [func@GLib.slice_free], plain
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[`malloc()`](man:malloc(3)) with [`free()`](man:free(3)), and (if you’re using
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C++) `new` with `delete` and `new[]` with `delete[]`. Otherwise bad things can
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happen, since these allocators may use different memory pools (and
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`new`/`delete` call constructors and destructors).
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Since GLib 2.46, [func@GLib.malloc] is hardcoded to always use the system malloc
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implementation.
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## Struct Allocations
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* [func@GLib.new]
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* [func@GLib.new0]
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* [func@GLib.renew]
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* [func@GLib.try_new]
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* [func@GLib.try_new0]
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* [func@GLib.try_renew]
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## Block Allocations
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* [func@GLib.malloc]
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* [func@GLib.malloc0]
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* [func@GLib.realloc]
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* [func@GLib.try_malloc]
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* [func@GLib.try_malloc0]
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* [func@GLib.try_realloc]
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* [func@GLib.malloc_n]
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* [func@GLib.malloc0_n]
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* [func@GLib.realloc_n]
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* [func@GLib.try_malloc_n]
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* [func@GLib.try_malloc0_n]
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* [func@GLib.try_realloc_n]
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## Free Functions
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* [func@GLib.free]
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* [func@GLib.free_sized]
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* [func@GLib.clear_pointer]
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* [func@GLib.steal_pointer]
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In addition, the `g_mem_gc_friendly` exported variable will be true if GLib has
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been [run with `G_DEBUG=gc-friendly`](running.html#environment-variables). If
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so, memory to be freed will be cleared to zero before being freed.
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## Stack Allocations
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* [func@GLib.alloca]
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* [func@GLib.alloca0]
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* [func@GLib.newa]
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* [func@GLib.newa0]
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## Aligned Allocations
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* [func@GLib.aligned_alloc]
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* [func@GLib.aligned_alloc0]
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* [func@GLib.aligned_free]
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* [func@GLib.aligned_free_sized]
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## Copies and Moves
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* [func@GLib.memmove]
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* [func@GLib.memdup2]
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## Deprecated API
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* [func@GLib.memdup]
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* [struct@GLib.MemVTable]
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* [func@GLib.mem_set_vtable]
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* [func@GLib.mem_is_system_malloc]
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* `glib_mem_profiler_table` exported variable
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* [func@GLib.mem_profile]
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'i18n.md',
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'logging.md',
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'main-loop.md',
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'memory.md',
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'memory-slices.md',
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'random.md',
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'reference-counting.md',
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glib/gmem.c
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glib/gmem.c
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realloc,
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};
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/**
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* SECTION:memory
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* @Short_Description: general memory-handling
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* @Title: Memory Allocation
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*
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* These functions provide support for allocating and freeing memory.
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*
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* If any call to allocate memory using functions g_new(), g_new0(), g_renew(),
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* g_malloc(), g_malloc0(), g_malloc0_n(), g_realloc(), and g_realloc_n()
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* fails, the application is terminated. This also means that there is no
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* need to check if the call succeeded. On the other hand, the `g_try_...()` family
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* of functions returns %NULL on failure that can be used as a check
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* for unsuccessful memory allocation. The application is not terminated
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* in this case.
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*
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* As all GLib functions and data structures use `g_malloc()` internally, unless
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* otherwise specified, any allocation failure will result in the application
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* being terminated.
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*
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* It's important to match g_malloc() (and wrappers such as g_new()) with
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* g_free(), g_slice_alloc() (and wrappers such as g_slice_new()) with
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* g_slice_free(), plain malloc() with free(), and (if you're using C++)
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* new with delete and new[] with delete[]. Otherwise bad things can happen,
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* since these allocators may use different memory pools (and new/delete call
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* constructors and destructors).
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*
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* Since GLib 2.46 g_malloc() is hardcoded to always use the system malloc
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* implementation.
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*/
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/* --- functions --- */
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/**
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* g_malloc:
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