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Re: Customize operator new / delete

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On 05/16/11 06:54 PM, Joshua Maurice wrote:
> On May 15, 6:14 am, James Kanze<james.ka...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Except in very rare cases, you should not
>> link the C++ standard library as a DLL, but statically.
>
> Wait what? IIRC, msvc in newer versions has even removed the option of
> statically linking to the C++ standard library (the C runtime library
> or whatever Microsoft calls it).
>
> Also, I know I've heard about fun results that can happen in Windows
> if you have two different DLLs that both statically link to the C
> runtime, and try to allocate memory in one DLL and free that object in
> the other DLL.
>
> I just want to point out that your advice is clearly wrong for
> Windows. As a programmer, one should educate oneself a bit about your
> platform or platforms, and then make an informed decision. And that
> informed decision will not /not/ be "almost always statically link
> against the C++ standard library".

That can be extrapolated to other platforms as well.  There isn't a 
static C++ standard library provided for (Open)Solaris.  Indeed if there 
were, it would make interposing user provided new and delete operator a 
lot harder.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Customize operator new / delete Nephi Immortal <immortalnephi@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 19:11 -0700
  Re: Customize operator new / delete Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-08 15:05 +1200
  Re: Customize operator new / delete James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 07:38 -0700
    Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-08 19:05 +0200
      Re: Customize operator new / delete Nephi Immortal <immortalnephi@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 15:35 -0700
        Re: Customize operator new / delete Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:45 +1200
      Re: Customize operator new / delete James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 13:25 -0700
        Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-11 09:31 +0200
          Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-11 09:56 +0200
            Re: Customize operator new / delete James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 06:14 -0700
              Re: Customize operator new / delete Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 23:54 -0700
                Re: Customize operator new / delete Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-16 19:43 +1200
                Re: Customize operator new / delete Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-16 12:53 +0100
              Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-18 17:32 +0200
                Re: Customize operator new / delete Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-05-18 12:38 -0400
          Re: Customize operator new / delete James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 06:12 -0700
  Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-08 18:44 +0200
    Re: Customize operator new / delete Nephi Immortal <immortalnephi@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 15:43 -0700
      Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-09 08:47 +0200
        Re: Customize operator new / delete Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-05-09 12:58 +0100
          Re: Customize operator new / delete "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-05-10 08:15 +0200
            Re: Customize operator new / delete Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-05-10 12:39 +0100
        Re: Customize operator new / delete James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 13:29 -0700

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