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memory

Defines functions for memory manipulations.

You can import these APIs from the memory package. For example:

from std.memory import memcmp

Functions​

  • ​destroy_n: Destroy count initialized values at pointer.
  • ​forget_deinit: Takes ownership and skips running __del__ deinitializers.
  • ​memcmp: Compares two buffers. Both strings are assumed to be of the same length.
  • ​memcpy: Copy count * size_of[T]() bytes from src to dest.
  • ​memmove: Copy count * size_of[T]() bytes from src to dest.
  • ​memset: Fills memory with the given value.
  • ​memset_zero: Fills memory with zeros.
  • ​uninit_copy_n: Copy count values from src into memory at dest.
  • ​uninit_move_n: Move count values from src into memory at dest.
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