Re: FreeProcInstance needed at exit?

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From: Glenn Patrick Steffler
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 20:41

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In article <BR0ow1w163w@kasoft.UUCP> kea@kasoft.UUCP (Ken Anderson) writes:
>Does anybody know if I should explicitly
>
>	FreeProcInstance(...)
>
>all of the thunks that I made with
>
>	MakeProcInstance(...)
>
>when my application terminates?

YOU MUST.  I REPEAT FOR THE CAPS LOCK IMPAIRED, MUST RELEASE ALL 
PROC INSTANCES WHEN THE APPLICATION TERMINATES, OR THE SYSTEM RESOURCES
WILL BE THAT MUCH SMALLER.  PROC INSTANCES WILL NEVER BE "CLEANED UP"
BY WINDOWS.

>That is, does Windows know to clean up, or will thunks accumulate?

Read overly obtrusive statement above.

>Thanks in advance.
>ken.

Next time Ken, read the "*.txt" files in the windows development directory!

>-- 
>Ken Anderson, kea@kasoft.UUCP, 416-274-6244 (fax:416-891-2715)
>---

-- 
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"The galaxial hearth steams the sea as the sky blood red embrasses darkness"
-John Constantine (HellBlazer)                          Glenn Steffler

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From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: FreeProcInstance needed at exit?
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