malloc

English

Etymology

Blend of map +‎ allocate.

Noun

malloc (plural mallocs)

1. (computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
   • 2001, USENIX Association, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference:

     It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.

Verb

malloc (third-person singular simple present mallocs, present participle mallocing, simple past and past participle malloced)

1. (computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.

References

• Denis Howe (1985–) “malloc”, in Denis Howe, editor, Free On-line Dictionary of Computing‎^[2], retrieved 2022-07-01

Further reading

• C dynamic memory allocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia