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Aliases

Aliases are big-endian on all systems. Applications that add extra information to the end of an AliasHandle must ensure that the extra data is always endian-neutral or of a defined endian type, preferably big-endian.

The AliasRecord data structure is opaque when building your application with the Mac OS X v10.4(Universal) SDK. Code that formerly accessed the userType field of an AliasRecord must use the Alias Manager functions GetAliasUserType, GetAliasUserTypeFromPtr, SetAliasUserType, or SetAliasUserTypeFromPtr. Code that formerly accessed the aliasSize field of an AliasRecord must use the functions GetAliasSize or GetAliasSizeFromPtr.

These Alias Manger functions are available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later. For more information, see Alias Manager Reference.

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