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* Dave Korn wrote, On 03/10/08 13:34:
>   DllMain is special.  There's a lot you cannot do in there, in particular
> file i/o, printf etc, because you're running inside a lock and it's a sort of
> critical section-y sort of situation, and indeed the MSVC CRT probably isn't
> inited yet, so you definitely won't have stdio.
>
>   If I were you, I'd put loads of OutputDebugMessage calls in your DllMain,
> and watch what's happening and look at the value of hModule, and the addressof
> g_hDLL (etc) using Sysinternals DebugView.
>   
OutputDebugString doesn't work in DllMain either, but it works in the
other functions.

Sam

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