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Mallow vs Malloc - What's the difference?

mallow | malloc |

As nouns the difference between mallow and malloc

is that mallow is any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family malvaceae'', especially of the genus ''malva several species are edible by humans while malloc is (computing) a subroutine in the c programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.

As a verb malloc is

(computing) to allocate memory using the c programming language malloc subroutine.

mallow

English

(wikipedia mallow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae'', especially of the genus ''Malva . Several species are edible by humans.

    • Derived terms

    * Indian mallow * Jew's mallow * marshmallow

    malloc

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
  • * 2001 , USENIX Association, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
    • It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.

    Verb

  • (computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.

    • References

    * "malloc" in The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (©1993-2005 Denis Howe)