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<concept id="GUID-54417A4F-710D-5257-BF49-13D9F28C92B9" xml:lang="en"><title>Memory

Management Overview</title><shortdesc>Provides functionality concerned with how memory is allocated for

and within programs.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<section id="GUID-F614F405-BECD-404C-800E-C723107FEE5A"><title>Purpose</title> <p>Fundamental to Symbian platform programs

is a concern that memory, as a limited resource, is carefully handled, particularly

in the event of error conditions. For this reason, exception handling and

memory management are closely tied together in the Cleanup Support API.</p> </section>

<section id="GUID-C176F084-C218-41EC-8C8C-AD5E74235382"><title>Architectural relationships</title> <p>The Uikon framework

uses these APIs to provide to each GUI program the basic infrastructure for

well-behaved memory handling. In particular, each GUI program has support

for cleaning up memory in exception conditions, and, in debug builds, detection

of memory leaks. </p> </section>

<section id="GUID-F8EE693D-A01C-49BF-A2DD-FD50CB6EEAF1"><title>Description</title> <p>Functionality is provided by a number

of APIs. Use them as follows:</p> <p><xref href="GUID-E5A83EF3-948B-5729-A2CD-3644E803520B.dita">Cleanup

Support Overview</xref> </p> <p>Provides idioms to handle program exceptions,

and to clean up memory when exceptions occur.</p> <p><xref href="GUID-6D8460DF-8B0F-5249-B236-92ABE0E67A14.dita">Memory

Allocation Overview</xref> </p> <p>Provides low-level functionality by which

a Symbian platform process can access and manipulate memory areas.</p> </section>

<section id="GUID-6C1446EB-CAF5-4545-BB75-3F894740AEF8"><title>See also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-FBE448A4-4728-5EE5-84F2-4790735857B3.dita">Basic

Types Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-506642C2-A14F-55F2-9377-43DDB14F4053.dita">Raw

Memory Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-FF8F5D97-7D37-5F6B-84A3-C064E2FD53E0.dita">System

Static Functions Overview</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-5D4B86D3-20C4-5D87-A6C1-225018D32347.dita">Thread

And Process Management Overview</xref> </p> </section>