6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
5:18 p.m.
I couldn't find any documentation on alloc-mem,
See the Open Firmware specification.
but I think this is how it works. It pops the top number on the stack and tries to allocate that amount of memory. If it succeeds it returns the address of the memory. If it fails, it returns 0. I think I would release the memory using free-mem. Does this sound about right?
alloc-mem ( len -- a-addr ) free-mem ( a-addr len -- )
alloc-mem calls ABORT" if it fails. Note that free-mem takes the length as input as well.
Segher