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From: kam@iti.org (Keith A. McNabb)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Does free() Work On Locked Pointers?
Keywords: memory management free
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.195715.24598@iti.org>
Date: 3 Jun 91 19:57:15 GMT
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Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
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Does anyone know if the the regular C free() function works in Windows
3.0 *IF* you've previously allocated memory with LocalAlloc() and then
obtained the pointer with LocalLock()?

I'm modifying some existing C code, and I don't want to have to keep up
with handles; it's just a linked list, so the memory blocks are tiny.
I'm hoping that I can free memory for freed list elements with the
regular free function, passing it the pointer .  LocalFree() requires a
handle.

uSoft SDK documentation says only:  "You can use ... malloc, calloc, 
realloc, and free, but [...] you may get unexpected results."

??????????

Keith McNabb
kam@iti.org