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/// MentOS, The Mentoring Operating system project
/// @file stdlib.h
/// @brief Useful generic functions and macros.
/// @copyright (c) 2014-2021 This file is distributed under the MIT License.
/// See LICENSE.md for details.
#pragma once
#include "stddef.h"
/// @brief Returns the number of usable bytes in the block pointed to by ptr.
/// @param ptr The pointer for which we want to retrieve the usable size.
/// @return The number of usable bytes in the block of allocated memory
/// pointed to by ptr. If ptr is not a valid pointer, 0 is returned.
size_t malloc_usable_size(void *ptr);
/// @brief Provides dynamically allocated memory.
/// @param size The amount of memory to allocate.
/// @return A pointer to the allocated memory.
void *malloc(unsigned int size);
/// @brief Allocates a block of memory for an array of num elements.
/// @param num The number of elements.
/// @param size The size of an element.
/// @return A pointer to the allocated memory.
void *calloc(size_t num, size_t size);
/// @brief Reallocates the given area of memory.
/// @param ptr The pointer to the memory to reallocate.
/// @param size The new size for the memory.
/// @return A pointer to the new portion of memory.
/// @details
/// It must be previously allocated by malloc(), calloc() or realloc() and
/// not yet freed with a call to free or realloc. Otherwise, the results
/// are undefined.
void *realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
/// @brief Frees dynamically allocated memory.
/// @param ptr The pointer to the allocated memory.
void free(void *ptr);
/// The maximum value returned by the rand function.
#define RAND_MAX ((1U << 31U) - 1U)
/// @brief Allows to set the seed of the random value generator.
/// @param x The new seed.
void srand(int x);
/// @brief Generates a random value.
/// @return The random value.
int rand();
/// @brief Cause an abnormal program termination with core-dump.
void abort();
/// @brief Tries to adds the variable to the environment.
/// @param name Name of the variable.
/// @param value Value of the variable.
/// @param overwrite Override existing variable value or not.
/// @return Zero on success, or -1 on error with errno indicating the cause.
int setenv(const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite);
/// @brief Tries to remove the variable from the environment.
/// @param name Name of the variable.
/// @return Zero on success, or -1 on error with errno indicating the cause.
int unsetenv(const char *name);
/// @brief Returns the value of the given variable.
/// @param name Name of the variable.
/// @return A pointer to the value, or NULL if there is no match.
char *getenv(const char *name);