1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207
|
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link href="../sqlite.css" rel="stylesheet">
<title>Memory Allocation Subsystem</title>
<!-- path=../ -->
</head>
<body>
<div class=nosearch>
<a href="../index.html">
<img class="logo" src="../images/sqlite370_banner.gif" alt="SQLite" border="0">
</a>
<div><!-- IE hack to prevent disappearing logo --></div>
<div class="tagline desktoponly">
Small. Fast. Reliable.<br>Choose any three.
</div>
<div class="menu mainmenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a>
<li class='mobileonly'><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick='toggle_div("submenu")'>Menu</a>
<li class='wideonly'><a href='../about.html'>About</a>
<li class='desktoponly'><a href="../docs.html">Documentation</a>
<li class='desktoponly'><a href="../download.html">Download</a>
<li class='wideonly'><a href='../copyright.html'>License</a>
<li class='desktoponly'><a href="../support.html">Support</a>
<li class='desktoponly'><a href="../prosupport.html">Purchase</a>
<li class='search' id='search_menubutton'>
<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick='toggle_search()'>Search</a>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="menu submenu" id="submenu">
<ul>
<li><a href='../about.html'>About</a>
<li><a href='../docs.html'>Documentation</a>
<li><a href='../download.html'>Download</a>
<li><a href='../support.html'>Support</a>
<li><a href='../prosupport.html'>Purchase</a>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="searchmenu" id="searchmenu">
<form method="GET" action="../search">
<select name="s" id="searchtype">
<option value="d">Search Documentation</option>
<option value="c">Search Changelog</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="q" id="searchbox" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>
</div>
</div>
<script>
function toggle_div(nm) {
var w = document.getElementById(nm);
if( w.style.display=="block" ){
w.style.display = "none";
}else{
w.style.display = "block";
}
}
function toggle_search() {
var w = document.getElementById("searchmenu");
if( w.style.display=="block" ){
w.style.display = "none";
} else {
w.style.display = "block";
setTimeout(function(){
document.getElementById("searchbox").focus()
}, 30);
}
}
function div_off(nm){document.getElementById(nm).style.display="none";}
window.onbeforeunload = function(e){div_off("submenu");}
/* Disable the Search feature if we are not operating from CGI, since */
/* Search is accomplished using CGI and will not work without it. */
if( !location.origin || !location.origin.match || !location.origin.match(/http/) ){
document.getElementById("search_menubutton").style.display = "none";
}
/* Used by the Hide/Show button beside syntax diagrams, to toggle the */
function hideorshow(btn,obj){
var x = document.getElementById(obj);
var b = document.getElementById(btn);
if( x.style.display!='none' ){
x.style.display = 'none';
b.innerHTML='show';
}else{
x.style.display = '';
b.innerHTML='hide';
}
return false;
}
var antiRobot = 0;
function antiRobotGo(){
if( antiRobot!=3 ) return;
antiRobot = 7;
var j = document.getElementById("mtimelink");
if(j && j.hasAttribute("data-href")) j.href=j.getAttribute("data-href");
}
function antiRobotDefense(){
document.body.onmousedown=function(){
antiRobot |= 2;
antiRobotGo();
document.body.onmousedown=null;
}
document.body.onmousemove=function(){
antiRobot |= 2;
antiRobotGo();
document.body.onmousemove=null;
}
setTimeout(function(){
antiRobot |= 1;
antiRobotGo();
}, 100)
antiRobotGo();
}
antiRobotDefense();
</script>
<!-- keywords: sqlite3_free sqlite3_malloc sqlite3_malloc64 sqlite3_msize sqlite3_realloc sqlite3_realloc64 -->
<div class=nosearch>
<a href="../c3ref/intro.html"><h2>SQLite C Interface</h2></a>
<h2>Memory Allocation Subsystem</h2>
</div>
<blockquote><pre>
void *sqlite3_malloc(int);
void *sqlite3_malloc64(sqlite3_uint64);
void *sqlite3_realloc(void*, int);
void *sqlite3_realloc64(void*, sqlite3_uint64);
void sqlite3_free(void*);
sqlite3_uint64 sqlite3_msize(void*);
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
The SQLite core uses these three routines for all of its own
internal memory allocation needs. "Core" in the previous sentence
does not include operating-system specific <a href="../vfs.html">VFS</a> implementation. The
Windows VFS uses native malloc() and free() for some operations.</p>
<p>The sqlite3_malloc() routine returns a pointer to a block
of memory at least N bytes in length, where N is the parameter.
If sqlite3_malloc() is unable to obtain sufficient free
memory, it returns a NULL pointer. If the parameter N to
sqlite3_malloc() is zero or negative then sqlite3_malloc() returns
a NULL pointer.</p>
<p>The sqlite3_malloc64(N) routine works just like
sqlite3_malloc(N) except that N is an unsigned 64-bit integer instead
of a signed 32-bit integer.</p>
<p>Calling sqlite3_free() with a pointer previously returned
by sqlite3_malloc() or sqlite3_realloc() releases that memory so
that it might be reused. The sqlite3_free() routine is
a no-op if is called with a NULL pointer. Passing a NULL pointer
to sqlite3_free() is harmless. After being freed, memory
should neither be read nor written. Even reading previously freed
memory might result in a segmentation fault or other severe error.
Memory corruption, a segmentation fault, or other severe error
might result if sqlite3_free() is called with a non-NULL pointer that
was not obtained from sqlite3_malloc() or sqlite3_realloc().</p>
<p>The sqlite3_realloc(X,N) interface attempts to resize a
prior memory allocation X to be at least N bytes.
If the X parameter to sqlite3_realloc(X,N)
is a NULL pointer then its behavior is identical to calling
sqlite3_malloc(N).
If the N parameter to sqlite3_realloc(X,N) is zero or
negative then the behavior is exactly the same as calling
sqlite3_free(X).
sqlite3_realloc(X,N) returns a pointer to a memory allocation
of at least N bytes in size or NULL if insufficient memory is available.
If M is the size of the prior allocation, then min(N,M) bytes
of the prior allocation are copied into the beginning of buffer returned
by sqlite3_realloc(X,N) and the prior allocation is freed.
If sqlite3_realloc(X,N) returns NULL and N is positive, then the
prior allocation is not freed.</p>
<p>The sqlite3_realloc64(X,N) interfaces works the same as
sqlite3_realloc(X,N) except that N is a 64-bit unsigned integer instead
of a 32-bit signed integer.</p>
<p>If X is a memory allocation previously obtained from sqlite3_malloc(),
sqlite3_malloc64(), sqlite3_realloc(), or sqlite3_realloc64(), then
sqlite3_msize(X) returns the size of that memory allocation in bytes.
The value returned by sqlite3_msize(X) might be larger than the number
of bytes requested when X was allocated. If X is a NULL pointer then
sqlite3_msize(X) returns zero. If X points to something that is not
the beginning of memory allocation, or if it points to a formerly
valid memory allocation that has now been freed, then the behavior
of sqlite3_msize(X) is undefined and possibly harmful.</p>
<p>The memory returned by sqlite3_malloc(), sqlite3_realloc(),
sqlite3_malloc64(), and sqlite3_realloc64()
is always aligned to at least an 8 byte boundary, or to a
4 byte boundary if the <a href="../compile.html#4_byte_aligned_malloc">SQLITE_4_BYTE_ALIGNED_MALLOC</a> compile-time
option is used.</p>
<p>The pointer arguments to <a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_free()</a> and <a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_realloc()</a>
must be either NULL or else pointers obtained from a prior
invocation of <a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_malloc()</a> or <a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_realloc()</a> that have
not yet been released.</p>
<p>The application must not read or write any part of
a block of memory after it has been released using
<a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_free()</a> or <a href="../c3ref/free.html">sqlite3_realloc()</a>.
</p><p>See also lists of
<a href="../c3ref/objlist.html">Objects</a>,
<a href="../c3ref/constlist.html">Constants</a>, and
<a href="../c3ref/funclist.html">Functions</a>.</p>
|