[OpenBIOS] Dynamic memory allocation

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Fri Jun 8 14:49:21 CEST 2012


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.



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