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Vineel Kumar Reddy
Vineel Kumar Reddy

Reputation: 4726

Data structures provided by Win32 API?

I am developing a program with the Win32 API. Are there any data structures that Windows provides like singly-linked list, trees etc. as part of Win32 API? If so please let me know how I can use them (at least headers which I need to include to use them). I already heard that there is LIST_ENTRY. Can I use it from user mode? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2497

Answers (1)

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 109190

The Win32 API has a singly linked list implementation. I don't think there are any other data structures in the API.

But, the singly linked list is designed for inter-thread queues rather than general algorithmic data processing. Better to use your language's own general purpose data structures which will not be so specialised (eg. C++'s STL data structures and associated algorithms are much richer that anything in the system API).

Upvotes: 6

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