MEMORY

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

code free ( addr -- )

Returns an allocated block of memory back to the run-time heap.

code malloc ( bytes -- addr)

Allocates a block of size "bytes" and returns a pointer to the memory area. Returns "nil" if the heap is saturated.

vocabulary memory ( -- )

Vocabulary containing the heap management extension. Include into the vocabulary search set, "context", to allow access of this library.

code realloc ( bytes addr1 -- addr2)

Resizes an allocated block on the heap. If the new size is larger than the grow size of the block a new block is allocated and the old blocks contains is copied and released back to the memory pool.

SEE ALSO

NOTE

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AUTHOR

Mikael R.K. Patel
Computer Aided Design Laboratory (CADLAB)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkoping University
S-581 83 LINKOPING
SWEDEN
Email: mip@ida.liu.se
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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

SEE ALSO

NOTE

COPYING

AUTHOR