Only a few memory allocation functions provided by the GLib are used in the Osiris. These are:
gpointer g_malloc (gulong size);
gpointer g_realloc (gpointer mem,
gulong size);
void g_free (gpointer mem);
The first one allocates the memory of size size (in bytes) and returns the pointer to this memory. It is similar to the standard C library function malloc() but much safer (malloc() could be buggy on some systems).
The second one is similar to realloc() and it does the same things.
And the last one is to free the memory, allocated by two previous functions.