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 no longer needed; 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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