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Memory Functions

Grouped by task. Memory and pointers lists them beside the rest of the area.

Allocate and free memory

Function	What it does	From
Allocate	Reserves a number of bytes and returns a pointer to them, or 0; the bytes are not cleared.	built-in
CAllocate	Reserves memory for a number of elements, set to zero, and returns a pointer or 0.	built-in
Reallocate	Resizes a block, keeping its contents, and returns the new pointer, or 0 on failure.	built-in
Deallocate	Frees memory from Allocate, CAllocate or Reallocate; does nothing for a null pointer.	built-in

Read and write memory by address

Function	What it does	From
Peek	Returns a reference to the value at an address, as a byte or as a given type.	built-in
Poke	Writes a value to an address, as a byte or as a given type.	built-in
SAdd	Returns a pointer to the characters of a string.	built-in

Copy, fill and swap memory

Function	What it does	From
Fb_Memcopy	Copies a number of bytes between two memory areas that do not overlap.	built-in
Fb_Memmove	Copies a number of bytes between two memory areas, even when they overlap.	built-in
fb_MemCopyClear	Copies the first bytes of one area into another and sets the rest to zero.	built-in
Clear	Sets a number of bytes, starting at a variable, to zero or to a given value.	built-in
Swap	Exchanges the values of two variables.	built-in

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