The GetModuleHandle function returns a module handle for the specified module if the file has been mapped into the address space of the calling process.
HMODULE GetModuleHandle(
LPCTSTR lpModuleName |
// address of module name to return handle for |
); |
If this parameter is NULL, GetModuleHandle returns a handle of the file used to create the calling process.
If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the specified module.
If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
The returned handle is not global, inheritable, or duplicative, and it cannot be used by another process.
The handles returned by GetModuleHandle and LoadLibrary can be used in the same functions ¾ for example, GetProcAddress, FreeLibrary, or LoadResource. The difference between the two functions involves the reference count. LoadLibrary maps the module into the address space of the calling process, if necessary, and increments the module’s reference count, if it is already mapped. GetModuleHandle, however, returns the handle of a mapped module without incrementing its reference count.
Note that the reference count is used in FreeLibrary to determine whether to unmap the function from the address space of the process. For this reason, use care when using a handle returned by GetModuleHandle in a call to FreeLibrary because doing so can cause a dynamic-link library (DLL) module to be unmapped prematurely.
This function must also be used carefully in a multithreaded application. There is no guarantee that the module handle remains valid between the time this function returns the handle and the time it is used by another function. For example, a thread might retrieve a module handle by calling GetModuleHandle. Before the thread uses the handle in another function, a second thread could free the module and the system could load another module, giving it the same handle as the module that was recently freed. The first thread would then be left with a module handle that refers to a module different than the one intended.
FreeLibrary, GetModuleFileName, GetProcAddress, LoadLibrary, LoadResource
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