RFC: {Global,Local}{Re,}Alloc()

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Sat Nov 22 01:05:53 CST 2003


"Oleg Prokhorov" <xolegpro at rbcmail.ru> wrote:

> Btw: What's the difference about {Global, Local, Virtual} memory
> allocation functions prefixes ? I didn't find any reasonable answer
> within MSDN

Global* and Local* API groups are the legacy APIs inherited from
16-bit Windows. In Win32 Local* APIs simply call their Global*
counterparts. In turn, Global* APIs in Win32 are implemented on
top of Heap* APIs, which in turn are implemented on top of the
Virtual* API group.

-- 
Dmitry.






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