(struct) ( class -- struct )
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Vocabulary
classes.struct

Inputs

class

a class

Outputs

struct

a struct

Word description
Allocates garbage-collected heap memory for a new struct of the specified class. The new struct's slots are left uninitialized; in most cases, the <struct> word, which initializes the struct's slots with their initial values, should be used instead.

See also
(malloc-struct)

Definition

USING: alien.c-types byte-arrays kernel ;

IN: classes.struct

: (struct) ( class -- struct )
    [ heap-size (byte-array) ] keep memory>struct ; inline