Raw Memory Overview

This document provides an overview of raw memory.

Purpose

Performs simple manipulations of data in memory.

Architectural relationships

This API is mostly used by other system APIs. Client applications generally use a higher-level API, such as descriptors.

Description

The API supplies static functions to compare, copy, move, swap, and fill areas of memory, as defined by pointers and data length parameters.

The raw memory interface is provided by Mem.