Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

ALLOCATE

ALLOCATE allocates storage of size n in heap storage and returns the pointer to the allocated storage.

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Abbreviation: ALLOC

n
Expression. n must be nonnegative. If necessary, n is converted to REAL FIXED BINARY(31,0).

If the requested amount of storage is not available, the STORAGE condition is raised.


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