astCalloc

Allocate and initialise memory

Description:

This function allocates memory in a similar manner to the standard C " calloc" function, but with improved security (against memory leaks, etc.) and with error reporting. It also fills the allocated memory with zeros.

Like astMalloc, it allows zero-sized memory allocation (without error), resulting in a NULL returned pointer value.

Synopsis

void ∗astCalloc( size_t nmemb, size_t size )

Parameters:

nmemb
The number of array elements for which memory is to be allocated.
size
The size of each array element, in bytes.

Returned Value

astCalloc()
If successful, the function returns a pointer to the start of the allocated memory region. If the size allocated is zero, this will be a NULL pointer.

Notes:

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