Microsoft Windows CE 3.0  

CoGetMalloc

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This function retrieves a pointer to the default OLE task memory allocator (which supports the system implementation of the IMallocinterface) so applications can call its methods to manage memory.

HRESULT CoGetMalloc(
DWORD
dwMemContext
,
LPMALLOC *
ppMalloc
);

Parameters

dwMemContext
[in] Reserved; value must be 1.
ppMalloc
[out] Address of IMalloc* pointer variable that receives the interface pointer to the memory allocator.

Return Values

This function supports the standard return values E_INVALIDARG and E_OUTOFMEMORY, as well as the following:

S_OK
Indicates the allocator was retrieved successfully.

Remarks

The pointer to the IMallocinterface pointer received through the ppMallocparameter cannot be used from a remote process?each process must have its own allocator.

Requirements

Runs On Versions Defined in Include Link to
Windows CE OS 3.0 and later Objbase.h   Ole232.lib
Note   This API is part of the complete Windows CE OS package as provided by Microsoft. The functionality of a particular platform is determined by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and some devices may not support this API.

See Also

CoTaskMemAlloc