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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

Accessing Per-Task Storage Variables

Multiprocessing Services provides the following functions for creating and manipulating per-task storage variables:

• MPAllocateTaskStorageIndex returns an index number to access per-task storage.
• MPDeallocateTaskStorageIndex frees an index number used to access per-task storage.
• MPSetTaskStorageValue sets the storage value for a given index number.
• MPGetTaskStorageValue gets the storage value stored at a specified index number.