Definition of "malloc" [malloc]

• A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation. (noun)
• To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine. (verb)

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• "This is analogous to the case of calling malloc (0), where the implementation is permitted to return a pointer to zero bytes."
• "The C function alloc_object in the interpreter currently calls malloc for every object allocated and doesn't record anything about what memory has been allocated."
• "A custom memory allocator should be usually written, because calling malloc () for a large number of small structures is suboptimal."