AllocMem

Allocates a block of native memory and returns its address.

Syntax: AllocMem( BytesToAlloc ) As LongPtr

BytesToAlloc
required Long. The size of the block to allocate, in bytes.

The contents of the new block are unspecified. Release the block with FreeMem when you are done with it; passing the address to anything else (e.g. a Win32 HeapFree) will not work, since the block is owned by the twinBASIC runtime’s heap.

If the allocation fails, AllocMem raises a run-time error.

Example 

Dim Buffer As LongPtr = AllocMem(1024)
PutMem4 Buffer, &HDEADBEEF
'... use Buffer ...
FreeMem Buffer

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