On 10 Dec 2005, at 22:55, L505 wrote:
The DLL does not know what your EXE memory is doing. So by the time
the string gets
to the DLL it may be cleaned up and gone, kind of like a garbage
collector. Same
thing with returning a string..
This does not make sense to me. When you return a string (from a
function in a dll or anywhere else), this string will have a
reference count of at least 1 and thus will not be cleaned up by anyone.
The only problem I can see that can occur is in case the program and
the dll indeed use different memory managers, in which case you can
have a situation where memory allocated by the dll's memory manager
is freed "to" the program's memory manager, and that will probably
confuse the hell out of it (even if they are essentially the same
memory manager, just using different data structures).
Jonas
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