On 25 jan 2006, at 08:39, L505 wrote:
Trustmaster sends me a trick/hack (as shown below) to avoid using
CMEM in a
dll/dso in order to get ansistrings working through a dll/dso.
Comments? Find anything that could possibly be wrong with this
trick we pull off?
i.e. the ability to use strings in a DLL/DSO without ever using
Pchars, nor CMEM!
It's exactly the same principle as using cmem, just that you are
using another memory manager than the one of the standard C library.
It has the same advantages (can return and accept ansistrings to/from
FPC-compiled programs and libararies) and problems (must not return
and accept ansistrings to/from programs not compiled with FPC). Well,
another advantage is of course for OS'es where the interface to libc
changes all the time (although I doubt the interface to malloc/free
etc will change anytime soon).
Jonas
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