At 11:38 AM -0500 2/15/02, Michael Maraist wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Alex Gough wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>
>> > To allocate memory that is GCable, call Parrot_allocate(interpreter,
>> > size). Then stash the pointer and size in your buffer header, or
>> > it'll
At 2:56 PM + 2/15/02, Alex Gough wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>> To allocate memory that is GCable, call Parrot_allocate(interpreter,
>> size). Then stash the pointer and size in your buffer header, or
>> it'll go missing later. To resize a chunk of memory, call
>> me
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Alex Gough wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > To allocate memory that is GCable, call Parrot_allocate(interpreter,
> > size). Then stash the pointer and size in your buffer header, or
> > it'll go missing later. To resize a chunk of memory, call
> > mem_r
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> To allocate memory that is GCable, call Parrot_allocate(interpreter,
> size). Then stash the pointer and size in your buffer header, or
> it'll go missing later. To resize a chunk of memory, call
> mem_realloc(interpreter, from, oldsize, newsize).
Havin
Okay, I've checked in the final bits needed to do memory allocations
and such within Parrot. Here's the scoop.
For memory you need to allocate from the system, use
mem_sys_allocate. Takes a size, returns a void pointer to the
allocated memory. Free it up with mem_sys_free, or it leaks. To
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