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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: shell32/tests: ILFree is not exported on all versions
From:       Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2 () ar ! fi ! lt>
Date:       2005-06-29 13:47:38
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.62.0506291641330.5428 () tvarka ! ar ! fi ! lt
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* On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> 
> By a looks of it wine using same IMalloc interface for both. Native, 
> including XP and server 2003 still export SHGetMalloc.
> 
> In other words I don't see a problem using SHGetMalloc on wine and all 
> of native versions.

Not a problem, just a message from MSDN [1]:

> SHGetMalloc Function
> Not currently supported.
> 
> Remarks
> This function should no longer be used. Use the CoTaskMemFree and 
> CoTaskMemAlloc functions in its place.

Plus CoTaskMemFree() lets us get rid of one global variable. :-P
No, this isn't a persuading act.  This might be more of my question:
--Why MS decided to write about stopping to support this function?


[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetmalloc.asp



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