Memory allocation: Difference between revisions
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free(addr)
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 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.
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