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A comment on PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS. Parent comment
I assume this is what `{Local,Global}{Lock,Unlock}` were for when combined with `{Local,Global}Alloc({L,G}MEM_MOVEABLE)`
Similar idioms occasionally persist in modern code - e.g. when dealing with FFI in GCed languages (C#'s `fixed` statement pins memory in place.)
And the "safe array" type from COM/OLE.
I assume this is what `{Local,Global}{Lock,Unlock}` were for when combined with `{Local,Global}Alloc({L,G}MEM_MOVEABLE)`
Similar idioms occasionally persist in modern code - e.g. when dealing with FFI in GCed languages (C#'s `fixed` statement pins memory in place.)