Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 2 - Open Transport Reference

Chapter 22 - Endpoints Reference / Functions

Allocating Structures

You use the OTAlloc and OTFree functions to allocate and free memory. These functions are mainly provided for XTI compatibility. In general, you should not use these functions to allocate and free structures on every call because this degrades performance. For a more detailed discussion of asynchronous processing and memory allocation, see "Providers".