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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)valloc.3c   6.2 (Berkeley) 5/12/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH VALLOC 3C "May 12, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 3
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: valloc \- aligned memory allocator
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .B char *valloc(size)
        !            14: .B unsigned size;
        !            15: .fi
        !            16: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            17: .ft B
        !            18: Valloc is obsoleted by the current version of malloc,
        !            19: which aligns page-sized and larger allocations.
        !            20: .ft R
        !            21: .PP
        !            22: .I Valloc
        !            23: allocates
        !            24: .I size
        !            25: bytes aligned on a page boundary.
        !            26: It is implemented by calling
        !            27: .IR malloc (3)
        !            28: with a slightly larger request, saving the true beginning of the block
        !            29: allocated, and returning a properly aligned pointer.
        !            30: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            31: .I Valloc
        !            32: returns a null pointer (0) if there is no available memory
        !            33: or if the arena has been detectably corrupted by storing outside the bounds
        !            34: of a block.
        !            35: .SH BUGS
        !            36: .I Vfree
        !            37: isn't implemented.

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