6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
5:23 p.m.
On 2012-Jun-6 08:03 , Programmingkid wrote:
I couldn't find any documentation on alloc-mem, 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?
It's documented in ieee 1275, page 109.
As for free-mem, that's probably correct, but most FCode never calls it. The assumption is that any memory allocated during boot needs to stay allocated.