Memory Allocation
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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:

-  :c:func:`TSfree`

-  :c:func:`TSmalloc`

-  :c:func:`TSrealloc`

-  :c:func:`TSstrdup`

-  :c:func:`TSstrndup`