Re: AW: DLL function with string result?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:12 PM 4/20/2001, Christian Lescher wrote:
>I found that in windowsx.h of cygwin/gcc there are the following functions defined:
>
>#define GlobalAllocPtr(flags,cb) (GlobalLock(GlobalAlloc((flags),(cb))))
>#define GlobalFreePtr(lp) (GlobalUnlockPtr(lp),(BOOL)GlobalFree(GlobalPtrHandle(lp)))
>
>May these functions also be used for copying a string? How must they be used? (Maybe 
>this works also for string > 64 KB?!)
>Is this also a way for interworking of Borland and Visual?


These aren't Cygwin functions.  They are Win32 functions.  You'll probably
find all the information you're looking for about them if you check the 
MSDN for documentation on these calls.



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