alloc

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of allocateCategory:English clippings#ALLOC.

Verb

alloc (third-person singular simple present alloc's, present participle alloc'ing, simple past and past participle alloc'ed)Category:English lemmas#ALLOCCategory:English verbs#ALLOCCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALLOCCategory:Pages with entries#ALLOCCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ALLOC

  1. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#ALLOC) Clipping of allocateCategory:English clippings#ALLOC.
    • 1994 June 12, Eric M Hermanson, “Re: +new vs. +alloc -init”, in comp.sys.next.programmer (Usenet):
      If you simply use alloc then init, you can't check for the existence of the object before it gets alloc'ed. If you use a single +new method (or something similar), then you can check for the existence of the object before it gets allocated in memory.
      Category:English terms with quotations#ALLOC
    • 2001, John Viega, Gary R. McGraw, Building Secure Software:
      Alloc enough space for any possible padding.
      Category:English terms with quotations#ALLOC
    • 2011, Stephen G. Kochan, Programming in Objective-C, page 413:
      Among the things this analyzer is capable of detecting is simple memory leaks. For example, it can find an object you alloc'ed but forgot to release.
      Category:English terms with quotations#ALLOC
    • 2012, Helmut J. Helpenstein, CAD Geometry Data Exchange Using STEP, page 86:
      Could not alloc enough memory
      Category:English terms with quotations#ALLOC
    • 2022, Handbook for CTFers, page 331:
      Generally, the data ins the stack should not be changed, a simple packing would choose to push such information into the stack (to alloc a new space on the stack).
      Category:English terms with quotations#ALLOC

Etymology 2

Clipping of allyloxycarbonylCategory:English clippings#ALLOC.

Alternative forms

Noun

alloc (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#ALLOCCategory:English nouns#ALLOCCategory:English uncountable nouns#ALLOCCategory:English uncountable nouns#ALLOCCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALLOCCategory:Pages with entries#ALLOCCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ALLOC

  1. (organic chemistryCategory:en:Organic chemistry#ALLOC, often attributively) Clipping of allyloxycarbonylCategory:English clippings#ALLOC.
    alloc protecting groupCategory:English terms with collocations#ALLOC
Category:English clippings Category:English lemmas Category:English nouns Category:English terms with collocations Category:English terms with quotations Category:English uncountable nouns Category:English verbs Category:Pages with 1 entry Category:Pages with entries Category:en:Organic chemistry Category:en:Programming