| 1 # Memory Management |
1 # Memory Management |
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3 With the `CxAllocator` interface UCX provides the possibility to use custom allocator functions for different purposes. |
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4 Many UCX functions support the use of specialized allocators or provide a second function suffixed with `_a`. |
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6 For convenience, functions that are not explicitly requesting an allocator - like e.g. `cx_strdup_a()` - also accept |
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7 `NULL` as an allocator, in which case the `cxDefaultAllocator` and stdlib functions are used. |
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9 Additionally, UCX also provides a [memory pool](mempool.h.md) implementation of the allocator interface. |
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11 > Although not part of the public API, UCX is also implementing the allocator interface |
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12 > in its own test suite: `CxTestingAllocator`. This allocator keeps track of memory allocations |
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13 > and de-allocations with the goal to detect memory management errors. |