Re: RFC: {Global,Local}{Re,}Alloc()

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Oleg Prokhorov"  wrote:
> Btw: What's the difference about {Global, Local, Virtual} memory
> allocation functions prefixes ? I didn't find any reasonable answer
> within MSDN

Global* and Local* API groups are the legacy APIs inherited from
16-bit Windows. In Win32 Local* APIs simply call their Global*
counterparts. In turn, Global* APIs in Win32 are implemented on
top of Heap* APIs, which in turn are implemented on top of the
Virtual* API group.