The Complete SPRLIB & ANNLIB

malloc_map

- allocate a MAP structure from a pool

SYNOPSIS

MAP *malloc_map ()

ARGUMENTS

None.

RETURNS

A pointer to a newly allocated MAP, or NULL in case of allocation failure.

FUNCTION

The MAP structure is taken from a pool of size MAP_STOCK (see STOCK-variables). If all structures in the pool are used, a new pool is allocated using malloc_netlib. The MapName field is set to a zero length string; the pointers FirstUnit, and LastUnit are set to NULL.

SEE ALSO

free_map, malloc_net, malloc_layer, malloc_unit, malloc_unit_value, malloc_link, malloc_weight, malloc_weight_value

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