Statements and Intrinsic Procedures for Memory Allocation and Deallocation

The following table lists statements and intrinsic procedures that are used for memory allocation and deallocation.

Name	Procedure Type	Description
ALLOCATE	Statement	Dynamically establishes allocatable array dimensions.
ALLOCATED	Intrinsic Function	Determines whether an allocatable array is allocated.
DEALLOCATE	Statement	Frees the storage space previously reserved in an ALLOCATE statement.
FREE	Intrinsic Subroutine	Frees the memory block specified by the integer pointer argument.
MALLOC	Intrinsic Function	Allocates a memory block of size bytes and returns an integer pointer to the block.
MOVE_ALLOC	Intrinsic Subroutine	Moves an allocation from one allocatable object to another.