Unit 'EXEC' Package
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FindResident

Find a resident module by name

Declaration

Source position: exec.pas line 1235

function FindResident(

  const name: pCHAR

):pResident;

function FindResident(

  const name: string

):pResident;

Arguments

name

  

Name of the resident to find

Function result

A pointer to the resident tag structure or nil if none found.

Arguments

name

  

Name of the resident to find

Description

Search the system resident tag list for a resident tag ("ROMTag") with the given name. If found return a pointer to the resident tag structure, else return nil.

Resident modules are used by the system to pull all its parts together at startup. Resident tags are also found in disk based devices and libraries.

See also

InitResident

  

Initialize resident module


Documentation generated on: 2021-07-30