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+//
+// Copyright 2018 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech>
+// Copyright 2018 Capitar IT Group BV <info@capitar.com>
+//
+// This document is supplied under the terms of the MIT License, a
+// copy of which should be located in the distribution where this
+// file was obtained (LICENSE.txt). A copy of the license may also be
+// found online at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+//
+
+== NAME
+
+nng_msg_alloc - allocate a message
+
+== SYNOPSIS
+
+[source, c]
+----
+#include <nng/nng.h>
+
+int nng_msg_alloc(nng_msg **msgp, size_t size);
+----
+
+== DESCRIPTION
+
+The `nng_msg_alloc()` function allocates a new message with body length _size_
+and stores the result in __msgp__.
+Messages allocated with this function contain a body and optionally a header.
+They are used with receive and transmit functions.
+
+== RETURN VALUES
+
+This function returns 0 on success, and non-zero otherwise.
+
+== ERRORS
+
+`NNG_ENOMEM`:: Insufficient free memory exists to allocate a message.
+
+== SEE ALSO
+
+<<nng_msg_free.3#,nng_msg_free(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_body.3#,nng_msg_body(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_dup.3#,nng_msg_dup(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_header.3#,nng_msg_header(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_header_len.3#,nng_msg_header_len(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_len.3#,nng_msg_len(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg_realloc.3#,nng_msg_realloc(3)>>,
+<<nng_strerror.3#,nng_strerror(3)>>,
+<<nng_msg.5#,nng_msg(5)>>,
+<<nng.7#,nng(7)>>