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From: olson@bootsie.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Recovering a Handle from an address in the block
Keywords: Memory Manager, RecoverHandle()
Message-ID: <34@bootsie.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 90 18:53:34 GMT
Reply-To: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson)
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Organization: Lexington Software Design, Lexington, MA
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Is there a socially responsible way to retrieve a Handle,
given a pointer to an address inside the block of memory
to which the Handle points?

RecoverHandle() expects a Pointer to the beginning of the
block, which isn't known.

I know this can be done by walking the heap (Macsbug does
it), but I don't really want to count on that not changing.

-Eric

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