Managing Memory

All tasks need memory. This chapter explains how to allocate memory, how to share it with other tasks, how to get information about it, and how to free it. For details of the functions described here, see Kernel Folio Calls, in the 3DO System Programmer's Reference.

This chapter contains the following topics:

About Memory
Allocating Memory
Getting Information About Memory
Reclaiming Memory for Other Tasks
Allowing Other Tasks to Write to Your Memory
Transferring Memory to Other Tasks
Using Private Memory Lists
Using Private Memory Pools
Getting Memory From the System-Wide Free Memory Pool
Debugging Memory Usage
Example
Function Calls