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explicitly note MALLOC-free and malloc-FREE is ok.

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.\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.31 2003/04/16 13:35:30 wiz Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.32 2003/06/19 15:11:49 yamt Exp $
.\" .\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" Copyright (c) 1996, 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved. .\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\" .\"
.Dd January 31, 2003 .Dd June 19, 2003
.Dt MALLOC 9 .Dt MALLOC 9
.Os .Os
.Sh NAME .Sh NAME
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macro is intended to be used with a compile-time constant macro is intended to be used with a compile-time constant
.Fa size .Fa size
so that the compiler can do constant folding. so that the compiler can do constant folding.
The In the comparison to
.Fn malloc
and
.Fn free
functions, the
.Fn MALLOC .Fn MALLOC
and and
.Fn FREE .Fn FREE
macros may be faster for some fixed-size allocations, at the cost of macros may be faster, at the cost of increased code size.
increased code size. There is no difference between the memory allocated with MALLOC and malloc.
i.e., no matter which MALLOC or malloc is used to allocate the memory,
either FREE or free can be used to free it.
.Pp .Pp
Unlike its standard C library counterpart Unlike its standard C library counterpart
.Pq Xr malloc 3 , .Pq Xr malloc 3 ,