Some DLL procedures return pointers to memory or require parameters of pointers to memory that cannot be provided by referencing a J array. The following verbs, defined in main\dll.ijs, are provided to allocate, free, read and write memory:
mema allocate bytes of memory
memr read bytes from memory (as type)
memw write bytes to memory (from type)
memf free memory allocated by mema
mema allocates memory. The result is an integer memory address. A 0 result indicates the allocation failed. For example:
address=: mema length
memf frees memory. The argument could be a mema result or pointer returned by a procedure. A 0 result is success and a 1 is failure.
memf address
memr reads data from memory. A _1 count reads up to the first 0 (read a C string).
data=: memr address,byte_offset,count [,type]
memw writes data to memory. If type is char, count can be 1 greater than the length of the string left argument, in which case a 0 is appended (writing a C string).
data memw address,byte_offset,count [,type]
memr and memw type parameter is 2 4 8 or 16 for char integer float or complex. The default is 2. The count parameter is a count of elements of the type.