Question about having msvcrt*.dll and cygwin1.dll in one process
cyg Simple
cygsimple@gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 14:09:00 GMT 2014
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Jan Nijtmanswrote:
> 2014-11-17 9:47 GMT+01:00 Jing Zhao :
>> The outputs:
>> welcome to linux world
>> res: 7777777
>> it's over
>>
>> So everything look fine. According to the FAQ 6.15, is there anything
>> that's potentially dangerous that I should be aware of, when linking both
>> msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll? Thanks a lot!
>
> If it works, then you are simply lucky. Some pitfalls I know off:
>
Certainly lucky and usually won't work on all systems or even the same
system consistently.
> - when using stdin/stdout/stderr, msvcrt and cygwin1.dll have
> their own implementation, which might conflict: locking over
> multiple threads works differently, buffering is different. So
> if both your application and the dll write to stdout, the
> order in which both outputs are intermixed is not guaranteed.
> - exception handling is different. Don't expect an exception being
> thrown in the dll to be handled gracefully in the application.
> - threading functions are different, same story.
> - dll initialization is different (recently a bug was fixed
> regarding this, in a pre-fix version of cygwin1.dll your
> current example might simply crash)
>
Memory control is the biggest issue. Two different runtimes
controlling the same memory segments will not work!
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