MATHEMATICA MATHLINK C FUNCTION

MLDeallocator

is a MathLink type that describes a function pointer to a function taking a void * as an argument and having a return type of void that implements a memory deallocator.

Details Details

The memory deallocator function must be thread-safe.
MLDeallocator() is declared in the MathLink header file mathlink.h.

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Basic Examples (1)Basic Examples (1)

#include <stdlib.h>
#include "mathlink.h"

/* AppAllocator implements a custom memory allocator */
void * AppAllocator(unsigned long size)
{
    return malloc(size);
}


/* AppDeallocator implements a custom memory deallocator */
void AppDeallocator(void *m)
{
    free(m);
}


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    MLENV env;
    MLINK link;
    MLParameters p;
    int error;

    MLSetAllocParameter((char *)p, AppAllocator, AppDeallocator);

     env = MLInitialize((char *)p);
    if(env == (MLENV)0)
        { /* unable to initialize the MathLink environment */ }

    link = MLOpenArgcArgv(env, argc, argv, &error);
    if(link == (MLINK)0)
        { /* unable to create the link */ }

    /* ... */

    MLClose(link);
    MLDeinitialize(env);

    return 0;
}