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26 .TH MEMORY 3T "October 15, 1995"
34 \- memory management-related functions for use with
39 .B "#include <tiffio.h>"
40 .B "tdata_t _TIFFmalloc(tsize_t);"
41 .B "tdata_t _TIFFrealloc(tdata_t, tsize_t);"
42 .B "void _TIFFfree(tdata_t);"
43 .B "void _TIFFmemset(tdata_t, int, tsize_t);"
44 .B "void _TIFFmemcpy(tdata_t, const tdata_t, tsize_t);"
45 .B "int _TIFFmemcmp(const tdata_t, const tdata_t, tsize_t);"
48 These routines are provided for writing portable software that uses
50 they hide any memory-management related issues, such as dealing with
51 segmented architectures found on 16-bit machines.
56 are used to dynamically allocate and reallocate memory used by
58 such as memory passed into the I/O routines.
59 Memory allocated through these interfaces is released back to the
64 Memory allocated through one of the above interfaces can be set to
67 copied to another memory location using
69 or compared for equality using
71 These routines conform to the equivalent