SETMEM
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The SETMEM function is used to increase, decrease or return the current "far heap" byte size.
- SETMEM(byte_size)
Description:
- Currently NOT supported in QB64!
- SETMEM(0) returns the total number of bytes currently in the far heap memory area.
- The byte size indicates the number of bytes to increase or decrease the far heap.
- If the byte size is negative, SETMEM decreases the far heap by the indicated number of bytes.
- If the byte size is positive, SETMEM attempts to increase the far heap space by the number of bytes.
- If SETMEM cannot change the far heap by the requested number of bytes, it reallocates as many bytes as possible.
- SETMEM can be used in mixed-language programming to decrease the far heap space so procedures in other languages can dynamically allocate far memory.
- Note: A first call to SETMEM trying to increase the far heap has no effect because Basic
- allocates as much memory as possible to the far heap when a program starts.
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