co-task-mem-alloc Function

Summary

Allocates a block of foreign memory for use in COM method argument passing.

Package

com

Signature

co-task-mem-alloc &key type pointer-type initial-element initial-contents nelems => pointer

Arguments

Values

Description

The function co-task-mem-alloc calls the C function CoTaskMemAlloc() to allocate a block of memory.

type, pointer-type, initial-element, initial-contents and nelems are handled in the same way as for the function fli:allocate-foreign-object.

Examples

Two ways to allocate memory for an integer:

(co-task-mem-alloc :type :int)

(co-task-mem-alloc :pointer-type '(:pointer :int))

See also

co-task-mem-free