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<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Sat Feb 24 18:37:16 2007 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>MEMORY</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>MEMORY</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <hr> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p>_TIFFmalloc, _TIFFrealloc, _TIFFfree, _TIFFmemset, _TIFFmemcpy, _TIFFmemcmp, − memory management-related functions for use with <small>TIFF</small> files</p> </td> </table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p><b>#include <tiffio.h></b></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><b>tdata_t _TIFFmalloc(tsize_t</b> <i>size</i><b>);<br> tdata_t _TIFFrealloc(tdata_t</b> <i>buffer</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>size</i><b>);<br> void _TIFFfree(tdata_t</b> <i>buffer</i><b>);<br> void _TIFFmemset(tdata_t</b> <i>s</i><b>, int</b> <i>c</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);<br> void _TIFFmemcpy(tdata_t</b> <i>dest</i><b>, const tdata_t</b> <i>src</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);<br> int _TIFFmemcmp(const tdata_t</b> <i>s1</i><b>, const tdata_t</b> <i>s2</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);</b></p> </td> </table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p>These routines are provided for writing portable software that uses <i>libtiff</i>; they hide any memory-management related issues, such as dealing with segmented architectures found on 16-bit machines.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><i>_TIFFmalloc</i> and <i>_TIFFrealloc</i> are used to dynamically allocate and reallocate memory used by <i>libtiff</i>; such as memory passed into the I/O routines. Memory allocated through these interfaces is released back to the system using the <i>_TIFFfree</i> routine.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>Memory allocated through one of the above interfaces can be set to a known value using <i>_TIFFmemset</i>, copied to another memory location using <i>_TIFFmemcpy</i>, or compared for equality using <i>_TIFFmemcmp</i>. These routines conform to the equivalent <small>ANSI</small> C routines: <i>memset</i>, <i>memcpy</i>, and <i>memcmp</i>, repsectively.</p> </td> </table> <a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a> <h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p>None.</p> </td> </table> <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="91%"> <p><b>malloc</b>(3), <b>memory</b>(3), <b>libtiff</b>(3TIFF)</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>Libtiff library home page: <b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p> </td> </table> <hr> </body> </html>