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.
| block_size |
the number of bytes to allocate |
|
a pointer to the allocated memory block |