Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVYTQjejB22GooU2zpBl3AchIwsIleXOH1n/iCOjMEJU0uU0UcjrFaAw Message-ID: <3F1BFA92.5070707@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:37:06 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucien Mathieu CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Call dynamic pointer References: <001401c34f79$402576a0$837588d9@arthas> In-Reply-To: <001401c34f79$402576a0$837588d9@arthas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lucien Mathieu wrote: > Hello, > > in a dll, I'm calling a > > extern "C" { > void * init(); > } > > where it is define as follow > > void * init() { > return (new TObject()); > } > > it's doing a segment fault, > does the new pointer is automatically deleted? > > I was thinking not to use the dlclose in the main program, > but it doesn't work either. > > Any idea how to return a pointer from a DLL to a main program? Is this issue Cygwin specific? If so, please provide details of the problem if you'd like someone here to be able to help solve it. Otherwise, you might want to make a similar inquiry to a Windows C++ development forum. I'd suggest including sample code that reproduces the problem too. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/