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Return information on the memory mechanism used to support the MemoryBuffer.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<llvm/Support/MemoryBuffer.h>`

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getBufferKind() const = 0;
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== Return Value

Whether the buffer is malloc‐backed or memory‐mapped.


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