Re: How to avoid DLL hell?

[GrayFace <sergroj@...>]

On 26.11.2010 16:54, steve donovan wrote:
> But, if it calls any C runtime functions, then that runtime's
> allocator may kick in, and you are back where you started.
>
> Most C extensions take the lazy way out and just use malloc (or
> strdup, etc) - naturally they wish to remain portable!
If pointers returned by malloc aren't freed by other dlls and things 
like FILE* aren't passed across dll borders, nothing wrong may happen as 
far as I understand. If a dll does pass such stuff around, it won't be 
usable from any language other than C/C++ and would cause all the 
mentioned problems with runtime dlls when used from C/C++. So, in my 
opinion it's definitely a bug, but I'm not a C guy. Personally I prefer 
to link CRT statically.

Thanks for the link.

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