Traffic Server provides five routines for allocating and freeing memory. These
routines correspond to similar routines in the C library. For example, TSrealloc
behaves like the C library routine realloc.
There are two main reasons for using the routines provided by Traffic Server.
The first is portability: the Traffic Server API routines behave the same on
all of Traffic Server's supported platforms. For example, realloc does not
accept an argument of NULL on some platforms. The second reason is that the
Traffic Server routines actually track the memory allocations by file and line
number. This tracking is very efficient, always turned on, and quite useful
when tracking down memory leaks.
The memory allocation functions are: