Memory Management

With the CxAllocator interface UCX provides the possibility to use custom allocator functions for different purposes. Many UCX functions support the use of specialized allocators or provide a second function suffixed with _a.

For convenience, functions that are not explicitly requesting an allocator - like e.g. cx_strdup_a() - also accept NULL as an allocator, in which case the default allocator is used.

Additionally, UCX also provides a memory pool implementation of the allocator interface.