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Chapter 2 - Memory Manager / Memory Manager Reference

Memory Manager Routines / Allocating and Releasing Nonrelocatable Blocks of Memory

NewPtrSys

You can use the NewPtrSys function to allocate a nonrelocatable block of memory of a specified size in the system heap.

FUNCTION NewPtrSys (logicalSize: Size): Ptr;

logicalSize

The requested size (in bytes) of the nonrelocatable block.

DESCRIPTION

The NewPtrSys function works much as the NewPtr function does, but attempts to allocate the requested block in the system heap zone instead of in the current heap zone.

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
memFullErr	-108	Not enough memory