Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man TIFFmemory

Misc. Reference Manual Pages                    TIFFmemory(3tiff)



NAME
     TIFFmemory, _TIFFmalloc, _TIFFrealloc, _TIFFfree,  _TIFFmem-
     set,  _TIFFmemcpy,  _TIFFmemcmp  - memory-management-related
     functions for use with TIFF files

SYNOPSIS
     #include 
     tdata_t _TIFFmalloc(tsize_t);
     tdata_t _TIFFrealloc(tdata_t, tsize_t);
     void _TIFFfree(tdata_t);
     void _TIFFmemset(tdata_t, int, tsize_t);
     void _TIFFmemcpy(tdata_t, const tdata_t, tsize_t);
     int _TIFFmemcmp(const tdata_t, const tdata_t, tsize_t);



     These routines are provided for  writing  portable  software
     that  uses libtiff. The routines hide any memory-management-
     related issues, such as dealing with segmented architectures
     found on 16-bit machines.

     _TIFFmalloc and _TIFFrealloc are used to  dynamically  allo-
     cate  and  reallocate memory used by libtiff, such as memory
     passed into the I/O routines.

     Memory allocated through these interfaces is  released  back
     to  the system using the _TIFFfree routine. Memory allocated
     through one of the above interfaces can be set  to  a  known
     value  using  _TIFFmemset, copied to another memory location
     using _TIFFmemcpy, or compared  for  equality  using  _TIFF-
     memcmp. These routines conform to the equivalent ANSI C rou-
     tines: memset, memcpy, and memcmp, respectively.


     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | image/library/libtiff       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface stability         | Uncommitted                 |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|



     libtiff(3), malloc(3C), memory(3C)


     This man page was originally written by Sam Leffler. Updated
     by Breda McColgan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.



SunOS 5.10          Last change: 05 Apr 2004                    1