Function

Vipsmalloc

Declaration [src]

void*
vips_malloc (
  VipsObject* object,
  size_t size
)

Description [src]

g_malloc() local to object, that is, the memory will be automatically freed for you when the object is closed. If object is NULL, you need to free the memory explicitly with g_free().

This function cannot fail. See vips_tracked_malloc() if you are allocating large amounts of memory.

Parameters

object

Type: VipsObject

Allocate memory local to this VipsObject, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
size

Type: size_t

Number of bytes to allocate.

Return value

Type: void*

A pointer to the allocated memory.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.