Memory allocation: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted

Inline

@@ Line 836: / Line 836: @@
 ...
 free(addr)
-atom addr2 = allocate(512,1)               -- automatically freed when addr2 drops out of scope
+atom addr2 = allocate(512,1)               -- automatically freed when addr2 drops out of scope or re-assigned
-atom addr3 = allocate_string("a string",1) -- automatically freed when addr3 drops out of scope</lang>
+atom addr3 = allocate_string("a string",1) -- automatically freed when addr3 drops out of scope or re-assigned</lang>
 Behind the scenes, the Phix stack is actually managed as a linked list of virtual stack blocks allocated on the heap, and as such it
 would be utterly pointless and quite probably extremely tricky to mess with.