Dynamic memory allocation

[Programmingkid]

What word can be used in OpenBIOS to dynamically allocate memory? I have tried ALLOCATE, but that word doesn't exist in the dictionary.

[Tarl Neustaedter]

On 2012-Jun-3 18:48 , Programmingkid wrote:
> What word can be used in OpenBIOS to dynamically allocate memory? I have tried ALLOCATE, but that word doesn't exist in the dictionary.

Alloc-mem is the one I'm most likely to use, unless I need dma-able 
memory, in whch case dma-alloc will be defined by the io nexus.

There's also always "," to allocate from the heap, depending on how much 
you need and where.

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 04/06/12 00:25, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> On 2012-Jun-3 18:48 , Programmingkid wrote:
> > What word can be used in OpenBIOS to dynamically allocate memory? I
> > have tried ALLOCATE, but that word doesn't exist in the dictionary.
>
> Alloc-mem is the one I'm most likely to use, unless I need dma-able
> memory, in whch case dma-alloc will be defined by the io nexus.
>
> There's also always "," to allocate from the heap, depending on how much
> you need and where.

Yes - alloc-mem should work absolutely fine with OpenBIOS.

ATB,

Mark.