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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!johnhall
- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: Memory management from Unix to Win32
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.001545.25245@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:15:45 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan23.041808.15461@netcom.com>
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- In article yikes@netcom.com (Michael Brill) writes:
- | As far as the UI goes, I'm not going to worry about now. What I
- | am worried about is memory management. I've scanned through the
- | Windows docs and understand how memory management works there
- | (getting handle, locking, operating, unlocking) and I'm looking
- | for an established scheme to make the port seamless between Unix
- | and Windows/Mac.
- |
- | Does targeting Win32 make life any easier for me?
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- With Win32, just use malloc() and free() ignoring all the other
- Windows management stuff (so yes, it makes life much easier).
- BTW: LocalAlloc() and LocalFree() are identical to malloc() and
- free() on Windows 32 systems.
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