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   mutazilah@gmail.com to James Harris   
   Re: PDOS/86   
   22 Aug 21 03:21:11   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 7:39:36 PM UTC+10, James Harris wrote:   
      
   > BTW, in IBM Assembler how do you request memory dynamically? Is there   
   > some equivalent of malloc?   
      
   GETMAIN.   
      
   You can see it being called if you search for @@GETM here:   
      
   https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpclib/mvssupa.asm   
      
   It is called from malloc() here (search for __getm):   
      
   https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpclib/stdlib.c   
      
   This isn't like a crappy Unix system where there is no API to   
   allocate memory.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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