HANDLE Type (Scalar)

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typedef unsigned short HANDLE;

Represents a handle associated with an allocated memory block.

The HANDLE type is mainly used to manage dynamically allocated memory using functions from alloc.h, but a lot of functions from other header files take instances of this type as parameters.

A handle points to a word-aligned block of memory, whose current address can be retrieved using HeapDeref.


See also: HeapAlloc, HeapFree, HLock, HeapUnlock, HeapDeref