NAME

       Memory_Management - BSON Memory Abstraction

DESCRIPTION

       Libbson  contains  a  lightweight  memory abstraction to make portability to new platforms
       easier. Additionally, it helps us integrate with interesting higher‐level  languages.  One
       caveat,  however,  is  that  Libbson  is  not  designed  to  deal with Out of Memory (OOM)
       situations. Doing so requires extreme dilligence throughout the application stack that has
       rarely  been  implemented  correctly.  This  may  change  in the future. As it stands now,
       Libbson will abort(3) under OOM situations.

       To aid in language binding  integration,  Libbson  allows  for  setting  a  custom  memory
       allocator   via   bson_mem_set_vtable(3)   \&.    This  allocation  may  be  reversed  via
       bson_mem_restore_vtable(3) \&.

COLOPHON

       This    page    is    part    of    libbson.     Please     report     any     bugs     at
       https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER.