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Dynamic Memory Management

The Library makes use of a dynamic memory manager which handles allocation and deallocation of dynamic memory. The methods used for allocation and deallocation are wrapper functions around the native malloc, calloc, realloc, and free methods. Hence, the functionality of teh module is very similar to the native C interface but it allows for structured error recovery and application termination in case of failure. It covers especially the following three situations:

DocumentationAdding and Deleting  Dynamic Memory Handlers


Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, libwww@w3.org,
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