Conclusion

Windows CE supports many of the same memory management techniques as desktop PC operating systems. However, Windows CE provides additional support for responding to low-memory systems that are more critical because the operating system does not use a paging file. As ever, programmers should always check for allocation failures and ensure that all allocated memory is eventually freed.

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