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- Unit MemAlloc;
-
- { Purpose is to provide the ability to create (destroy) dynamic variables }
- { without needing to reserve heap space at compile time. }
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- Interface
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- Function Malloc(Var Ptr; Size : Word) : Word;
- { Allocate free memory and return a pointer to it. The amount of memory }
- { requested from DOS is calculated as (Size/4)+1 paragraphs. If the }
- { allocation is successful, the untyped VAR parameter Ptr will be populated }
- { with the address of the allocated memory block, and the function will return}
- { a zero result. Should the request to DOS fail, Ptr will be populated with }
- { the value NIL, and the function will return the appropriate DOS error code. }
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- Function Dalloc(Var Ptr) : Word;
- { Deallocate the memory pointed to by the untyped VAR parameter Ptr }
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- Function DosMemAvail : LongInt;
- { Return the size of the largest contiguous chuck of memory available for use }
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- { --------------------------------------------------------------------------- }
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- Implementation
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- { --------------------------------------------------------------------------- }
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- Function Malloc(Var Ptr; Size : Word) : Word;
- Begin
- Inline(
- $8B/$46/<SIZE/ { mov ax,[bp+<Size]}
- $B9/$04/$00/ { mov cx,4}
- $D3/$E8/ { shr ax,cl}
- $40/ { inc ax}
- $89/$C3/ { mov bx,ax}
- $B4/$48/ { mov ah,$48}
- $CD/$21/ { int $21 ;Allocate memory}
- $72/$07/ { jc AllocErr ;If any errors ....}
- $C7/$46/$FE/$00/$00/ {NoErrors: mov word [bp-2],0 ;Return 0 for successful allocation}
- $EB/$05/ { jmp short Exit}
- $89/$46/$FE/ {AllocErr: mov [bp-2],ax ;Return error code}
- $31/$C0/ { xor ax,ax ;Store a NIL value into the ptr}
- $C4/$7E/<PTR/ {Exit: les di,[bp+<Ptr] ;Address of pointer into es:di}
- $50/ { push ax ;Save the Segment part}
- $31/$C0/ { xor ax,ax ;Offset is always 0}
- $FC/ { cld ;Make sure direction is upward}
- $AB/ { stosw ;Store offset of memory block}
- $58/ { pop ax ;Get back segment part}
- $AB); { stosw ;Store segment of memory block}
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- End {Malloc};
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- { --------------------------------------------------------------------------- }
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- Function Dalloc(Var Ptr) : Word;
- Begin
- If Pointer(Ptr) <> NIL then begin
- Inline(
- $B4/$49/ { mov ah,$49}
- $C4/$7E/<PTR/ { les di,[bp+<Ptr]}
- $26/$C4/$3D/ { es: les di,[di]}
- $CD/$21/ { int $21}
- $72/$02/ { jc Exit}
- $31/$C0/ {NoError: xor ax,ax}
- $89/$46/$FE); {Exit: mov [bp-2],ax}
- Pointer(Ptr) := NIL;
- end {if}
- else
- Dalloc := 0;
- End {Dealloc};
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- { --------------------------------------------------------------------------- }
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- Function DosMemAvail : LongInt;
- Begin
- Inline(
- $BB/$FF/$FF/ { mov bx,$FFFF}
- $B4/$48/ { mov ah,$48}
- $CD/$21/ { int $21}
- $89/$D8/ { mov ax,bx}
- $B9/$10/$00/ { mov cx,16}
- $F7/$E1/ { mul cx}
- $89/$46/$FC/ { mov [bp-4],ax}
- $89/$56/$FE); { mov [bp-2],dx}
- end {DosMemAvail};
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- End {Unit MemAlloc}.
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