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Scott Turchin
MCSE, MCP+I http://www.tngbbs.com
---------------------- True Karate-do is this: that in daily life, one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility; and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. -Gichin Funakoshi
DISCARDABLE indicates that when memory is low, Windows can choose to free (release) the resource from memory, and if/when the resource is required again later it can be reloaded transparently. Importantly, the application is not made aware of this background memory management.
Essentially, the DISCARDABLE characteristic stems from Win16 when lack of memory was (is!) a problem.
In WIN32, this scheme is largly (completely?) irrelevent since low memory conditions are much less of a problem, thanks to the huge amounts of virtual memory than can be dynamically allocated, etc.
I'm scratching *my* memory now, but I think that Win32 may actually ignore that characteristic of a resource object.
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