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This function frees a block of task memory previously allocated through a call to the CoTaskMemAllocor CoTaskMemReallocfunction.

Syntax 

void CoTaskMemFree(
  LPVOID 
pv
);

Parameters

pv

[in] Void pointer to the memory block to be freed.

Return Value

None.

Remarks

The CoTaskMemFreefunction, using the default OLE allocator, frees a block of memory previously allocated through a call to the CoTaskMemAllocor CoTaskMemReallocfunction.

The number of bytes freed equals the number of bytes that were originally allocated or reallocated. After the call, the memory block pointed to by pvis invalid and can no longer be used.

Passing into this function any invalid and, under some circumstances, NULL pointers result in unexpected termination of the application.

To determine whether the platform supports this function, see Determining Supported COM APIs.

Requirements

Header objbase.h
Library ole32.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 2.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also