MALLOC — Allocate dynamic memory#

MALLOC(SIZE)#

MALLOC(SIZE) allocates SIZE bytes of dynamic memory and returns the address of the allocated memory. The MALLOC intrinsic is an extension intended to be used with Cray pointers, and is provided in GNU Fortran to allow the user to compile legacy code. For new code using Fortran 95 pointers, the memory allocation intrinsic is ALLOCATE.

Parameters: SIZE – The type shall be INTEGER.
Returns: The return value is of type INTEGER(K), with K such that variables of type INTEGER(K) have the same size as C pointers (sizeof(void *)).

Standard:

GNU extension

Class:

Function

Syntax:

PTR = MALLOC(SIZE)

Example:

The following example demonstrates the use of MALLOC and FREE with Cray pointers.

program test_malloc
  implicit none
  integer i
  real*8 x(*), z
  pointer(ptr_x,x)

  ptr_x = malloc(20*8)
  do i = 1, 20
    x(i) = sqrt(1.0d0 / i)
  end do
  z = 0
  do i = 1, 20
    z = z + x(i)
    print *, z
  end do
  call free(ptr_x)
end program test_malloc

See also:

FREE — Frees memory