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by unwind 406 days ago
I would (coming from a C background) guess that `allocPrint()` owes its name from the C standard library function(s) `as(n)printf()`[1]. At least that would make sense, the naming is modernized by being made longer, to gain clarity.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/asprintf.3.html