This efun is only available if DISALLOW_BUFFER_TYPE is not compiled in.
Allocate a buffer of ‘size’ elements. The number of elements must be >= 0 and not bigger than a system maximum (usually ~10000). All elements are initialized to 0.
===Example:===
buffer allocate_buffer( int size );
See also:
bufferp, read_buffer, write_buffer
Tim Hollebeek Beek@ZorkMUD, Lima Bean, IdeaExchange, and elsewhere