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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

Memory Allocation Functions

Multiprocessing Services provides the following functions for allocating and manipulating blocks of memory from within preemptive tasks:

• MPAllocateAligned allocates a nonrelocatable memory block.
• MPFree frees memory allocated by MPAllocateAligned .
• MPGetAllocatedBlockSize returns the size of a memory block.
• MPBlockCopy copies a block of memory.
• MPBlockClear clears a block of memory.
• MPDataToCode designates the specified block of memory as executable code.