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Name

autfreeheap - releases a memory block, and put it on the heap.

Origin

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD system from the CAO-VLSI team at ASIM/LIP6/UPMC laboratory.
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E-mail support : alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr

Synopsys

#include aut101.h"
void autfreeheap( Pointer, Size )

char
*Pointer; unsigned int Size;

Parameters

Pointer
Pointer to be given back to the heap.
Size
Size of the block previously allocated by autal_locheap.

Description

autfreeheap frees a pointer and puts the block back to the heap. Its use is necessary to free memory blocks, previously allocated by autallocheap.

Return Value

autfreeheap returns nothing.

Example

#include aut101.h"
typedef struct bipointer
{
struct bipointer *NEXT;

void
*DATA; } bipointer; bipointer *addbipointer( Data ); void *Data; { bipointer *Bp = (bipointer *)autallocheap( sizeof( bipointer ) ); Bp->DATA = Data; return Bp; } void delbipointer( Bp ); bipointer *Bp; { autfreeheap( Pointer, sizeof( bipointer ) );
}

See Also

aut(1) , autresizeblock(3) , autallocheap(3) , autallocblock(3) , autfreeblock(3) .

Bug Report

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