16.1. The GetSystemInfo Function
TheGetSystemInfo function returns information about the hardware of the system on which your program is running. This information is useful when you want to tune your application's behavior to the hardware that is available.
| GetSystemInfo | Returns information about the current hardware |
VOID GetSystemInfo( LPSYSTEM_INFO info) | |
| info | a SYSTEM_INFO structure |
| Returns nothing |
The function returns a SYSTEM_INFO structure that contains several pieces of immediately obvious information, along with other pieces of information that are more obscure, as follows:
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