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Chapter 2 - Memory Manager / Memory Manager Reference

Memory Manager Routines

Allocating and Releasing Relocatable Blocks of Memory

You can use the NewHandle function to allocate a relocatable block of memory, or the NewEmptyHandle function to allocate handles for which you do not yet need blocks of memory. If you want to allocate new blocks of memory in the system heap or with their bits precleared to 0, you can use the functions NewHandleSys, NewHandleClear, and NewHandleSysClear.

WARNING

You should not call any of these memory-allocation routines at
interrupt time.

You can use the DisposeHandle procedure to free relocatable blocks of memory you have allocated.

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Subtopics

NewHandle

NewHandleSys

NewHandleClear

NewHandleSysClear

NewEmptyHandle

NewEmptyHandleSys

DisposeHandle