s="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>ptr</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the initial memory block pointer</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>size</tt></i>:</span></td><td>an int specifying the size in byte to allocate.</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>a pointer to the allocated area or NULL in case of lack of memory.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlMemSetup" id="xmlMemSetup"></a>Function: xm