About the Dynamite heapBlock IDs
When you allocate a block using Dynamite_Alloc, you can specify a block ID to associate with it. This can be any 32-bit value you like, although it should be something unlikely to conflict with other client's IDs, e.g.:
· A modules base address
· An application's task handle or start time
If you want your program to have multiple IDs, you could divide the ID value into a magic field (say 24 bits of module base address) and an index number.
Later, you can free all blocks with a particular ID. This is useful when you want to free all the blocks associated with a particular object when that object is destroyed. For example, during development of a module, you could free all its Dynamite blocks in the finalisation code.
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