sliceAlloc

Allocates a block of memory from the libc allocator.

The block address handed out can be expected to be aligned to at least 1 * sizeof (void*).

Since GLib 2.76 this always uses the system malloc() implementation internally.

void*
sliceAlloc
(
size_t blockSize
)

Parameters

blockSize size_t

the number of bytes to allocate

Return Value

Type: void*

a pointer to the allocated memory block, which will be null if and only if mem_size is 0