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This function frees memory that has been returned from the resource manager using the SCARD_AUTOALLOCATE length designator.

Syntax 

LONG SCardFreeMemory(
  SCARDCONTEXT 
hContext,
  LPCVOID 
pvMem,
);

Parameters

hContext

[in] Handle that identifies the resource manager context returned from SCardEstablishContext, or NULL if the creating function also specified NULL for its hContextparameter. For more information, see Smart Card Database Query Functions.

pvMem

[in] Memory block to be freed.

Return Value

The following table shows the possible return values.

Value Description

SCARD_S_SUCCESS

Succeeds

An error value (see Smart Card Error Valuesfor a list of all error values).

Fails

Requirements

Header winscard.h
Library winscard.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 5.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also