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From: roper@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Mem eating
Keywords: disgard free memory
Message-ID: <6945@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 89 05:03:56 GMT
References: <33587@grapevine.uucp>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Parker Waechter writes:

> An aplication I am writing seems to be holding 20K or so after the 
> program terminates (as checked by command window aboutbox). 

Use Heapwalker.  It comes with the Windows SDK.

> What is the difference between Local/GlobalFree and Local/GlobalDiscard?

*Free invalidates the memory handle if the function is successful.
*Discard just ReAlloc's the memory block to zero, but the handle
remains valid.  Note that *Free returns hMem if it fails and *Discard
returns hMem if it succeeds.

Mike Roper