Allocates a block of memory from the slice allocator.
The block adress handed out can be expected to be aligned
to at least 1 * sizeof (void*),
though in general slices are 2 * sizeof (void*) bytes aligned,
if a malloc() fallback implementation is used instead,
the alignment may be reduced in a libc dependent fashion.
Note that the underlying slice allocation mechanism can
be changed with the G_SLICE=always-malloc
environment variable.
Since 2.10
Allocates a block of memory from the slice allocator. The block adress handed out can be expected to be aligned to at least 1 * sizeof (void*), though in general slices are 2 * sizeof (void*) bytes aligned, if a malloc() fallback implementation is used instead, the alignment may be reduced in a libc dependent fashion. Note that the underlying slice allocation mechanism can be changed with the G_SLICE=always-malloc environment variable. Since 2.10