malloc

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of map +‎ allocate.[1]

Noun

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Diomidis Spinellis (2017 September 14) “The Origins of Malloc”, in blog dds[1], archived from the original on 2017-09-14.

Further reading

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