man pages section 3: Basic Library Functions
    
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 madvise - provide advice to VM system ( Index Term Link )
 
 make modified instructions executable - sync_instruction_memory ( Index Term Link )
 
 makecontext -- manipulate user contexts ( Index Term Link )
 
 malloc - memory allocator ( Index Term Link )
 
 manipulate sets of signals -- sigsetops ( Index Term Link )
  sigaddset ( Index Term Link )
  sigdelset ( Index Term Link )
  sigemptyset ( Index Term Link )
  sigfillset ( Index Term Link )
  sigismember ( Index Term Link )
 
 match filename or path name - fnmatch ( Index Term Link )
 
 mblen - get number of bytes in a character ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbrlen - get number of bytes in a character (restartable) ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbrtowc - convert a character to a wide-character code (restartable) ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbsinit - determine conversion object status ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbsrtowcs - convert a character string to a wide-character string (restartable) ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbstowcs - convert a character string to a wide-character string ( Index Term Link )
 
 mbtowc - convert a character to a wide-character code ( Index Term Link )
 
 mctl - memory management control ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory -- memory operations ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory, optimizing usage of user mapped memory - madvise ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator - bsdmalloc ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator
  -- alloca ( Index Term Link )
  - calloc ( Index Term Link )
  -- calloc ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator - bsdmalloc
  free ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator
  - free ( Index Term Link )
  -- free ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link )
  -- mallinfo ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator - bsdmalloc
  malloc ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator
  - malloc ( Index Term Link )
  -- malloc ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link )
  -- mallopt ( Index Term Link )
  -- memalign ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator - bsdmalloc
  realloc ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory allocator
  - realloc ( Index Term Link )
  -- realloc ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link ) ( Index Term Link )
  -- valloc ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory lock or unlock, calling process - plock ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory management - mctl ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory management
  get system page size - getpagesize ( Index Term Link )
  lock address space -- mlockall ( Index Term Link )
  lock pages in memory -- mlock ( Index Term Link )
  synchronize memory with physical storage - msync ( Index Term Link )
  unlock address space -- munlockall ( Index Term Link )
  unlock pages in memory -- munlock ( Index Term Link )
 
 memory operations
  -- memccpy ( Index Term Link )
  -- memchr ( Index Term Link )
  -- memcmp ( Index Term Link )
  -- memcpy ( Index Term Link )
  -- memmove ( Index Term Link )
  -- memory ( Index Term Link )
  -- memset ( Index Term Link )
 
 message catalog
  open/catalog -- catopen, catclose ( Index Term Link )
  read a program message - catgets ( Index Term Link )
 
 message handling functions
  -- bindtextdomain ( Index Term Link )
  -- dcgettext ( Index Term Link )
  -- dgettext ( Index Term Link )
  -- gettext ( Index Term Link )
  -- textdomain ( Index Term Link )
 
 messages
  display a message on stderr or system console - fmtmsg ( Index Term Link )
  print system error messages -- perror ( Index Term Link )
  system signal messages -- psignal ( Index Term Link )
 
 mkfifo - create a new FIFO ( Index Term Link )
 
 mkstemp - make a unique file name ( Index Term Link )
 
 mktemp - make a unique file name ( Index Term Link )
 
 mktime - converts a tm structure to a calendar time ( Index Term Link )
 
 modf -- decompose floating-point number ( Index Term Link )
 
 modff -- decompose floating-point number ( Index Term Link )
 
 monitor - prepare process execution profile ( Index Term Link )
 
 msync - synchronize memory with physical storage ( Index Term Link )