[Hyper Nova]

Hello, i need to know what is malloc in pawn,

I need to found this function but i did not found it in any include file.
However i search from google and it seems like there are not that function in pawn like malloc.

Can someone help me?

[<VeCo>]

Doesn't exist in AMXX Pawn.

[ConnorMcLeod]

The only data size in pawn is cell (4 bytes), you can only declare variables that have that size or array of such type :

new var
new Float:var
new bool:var

All of them uses a cell.

You can declare arrays :

new string[32]
new bool:IsPlayerCheater[33]


Note that pawn let you declare char arrays doing : new array[128 char] but it is not supported by any amxx native.
You could use it anyway instead of player bool variable :

new bool:g_HasParachute[33]
-> g_HasParachute[player] = true , g_HasParachute[player] = false

Instead you can do :
new g_HasParachute[33 char]
g_HasParachute{id} = 1

It will use less memory.



If you don't want to allocate memory each time, consider using static variables inside functions, or global variables.

[t3hNox]

I would like to clearify something.
In terms of memory usage it means creating Array[33 char] would be more efficient than Array[33] ?

However, creating a simple variable (new SomeVar) would be even more effecient than Array[33 char] if bit shifting is used to assign values to SomeVar (but for simple variables there is a strict limitation as to how many values can be assigned) ?

ConnorMcLeod mentioned that this char functionality is not supported by any amxx native yet I have seen plugins using arrays with chars without having any appearant problems. For example if I'm using iMoney[33 char] array to store every player's money, would it cause any problems (I'm simply talking about setting and retrieving values from array, not formatting or anything like that) ?

And lastly, would this work ?
new Array[95 char]
Array{83} = 235315

[ConnorMcLeod]

Create [33 char] uses 33 bytes or memory, create [33] uses 132, though it's not a big deal nowadays, and also, i'm not sur but i think that a fix amount of memory is reserved to each plugin.
You can only set a value between 0 and 255, so you won't buy a lot of thing to such few money
When i said no native supports it, i meant this for strings.

[t3hNox]

Ok, thanks.