reactos/lib/rtl/readme.txt
Cameron Gutman c2d0d784c7 [USB-BRINGUP-TRUNK]
- Create a branch to do a proper merge of USB work from a trunk base instead of from cmake-bringup
- In the future, DO NOT under any circumstances branch another branch. This leads to merge problems!

svn path=/branches/usb-bringup-trunk/; revision=55018
2012-01-20 20:58:46 +00:00

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RTL restrictions:
ExAllocatePool (and friends) must be used exclusively. RtlAllocateHeap (and friends) must NOT be used! ExAllocatePool (and friends) translate to RtlAllocateHeap (and friends) in ntdll\rtl\libsupp.c.
RtlEnterCriticalSection (and friends) must be used exclusively. ExAcquireFastMutex (and friends) must NOT be used! RtlEnterCriticalSection (and friends) translate to ExAcquireFastMutex (and friends) in ntoskrnl\rtl\libsupp.c. This means that RtlEnterCriticalSection (and friends) can NOT be used recursively in RTL. The reason for choosing RtlEnterCriticalSection (and friends) over ExAcquireFastMutex (and friends) is that the FAST_MUTEX struct is smaller than the RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION struct.