<p>The '<tt>malloc</tt>' instruction allocates memory from the system
heap and returns a pointer to it.</p>
<h5>Arguments:</h5>
-<p>The the '<tt>malloc</tt>' instruction allocates <tt>sizeof(<type>)*NumElements</tt>
-bytes of memory from the operating system, and returns a pointer of the
+<p>The '<tt>malloc</tt>' instruction allocates <tt>sizeof(<type>)*NumElements</tt>
+bytes of memory from the operating system and returns a pointer of the
appropriate type to the program. The second form of the instruction is
a shorter version of the first instruction that defaults to allocating
one element.</p>