Memory and tile (re)allocation, duplication and freeing,

ML type system initialization and destruction,

Querying data type properties: Checks for floating point, integer, standard, sign, size, minimum, maximum, validity, etc. properties,

Merging types to new types: Promoted precision and types from two other types,

Information on registered types and their implemented functionality: Bit mask with flags for all implemented operations,

Functions and macros for the registration of user-defined voxel data types,

Little/Big endian conversion functionality for data and registered voxel data types,

Registering a user defined voxel data type, and

A set of convenience functionality to compute with registered data types, to convert them from/to strings, to allocate/manage/free voxel buffers.