Function

GLibmalloc

Declaration 

gpointer
g_malloc (
  gsize n_bytes
)

Description

Allocates n_bytes bytes of memory. If n_bytes is 0 it returns NULL.

Parameters

n_bytes gsize
 

The number of bytes to allocate.

Return value

Returns: gpointer
 

A pointer to the allocated memory.
 The data is owned by the called function.
 The return value can be NULL.