As for heap corruption when free()ing from another module on Windows: this is a topic that confuses me personally. Did you see that actually happen with Windows 7 and later? I vaguely remember that this was supposedly fixed in XP or Vista and I haven't experienced any issues with it, either. I'd love to see some authoritative documentation or a definitive example.
I need to reply to myself here because I finally found a good explanation
of why this sometimes works (and I turned out to be lucky) and sometimes fails miserably. It's on Raymond Chen's blog of all places: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161209-00/?p=94905 (Spoiler: it all depends on how DLLs and programs get linked to the C runtime, and to which one) So OIIO really must change in order to cope with all the different possibilities how program heaps can be structured on Windows. _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
