Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010420103953.022a2700@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:42:47 -0400 To: Lescher Christian , "'Andrew Markebo'" , Troy Noble From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: AW: DLL function with string result? Cc: "'Christian Lescher'" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <353063C297A9D3118F760008C791E26901F8656E@MCHH263E> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yes, there is a general problem when you want to allocate in one DLL made by one compiler and de-allocate in another built be another compiler. In this case, the heaps are different. This is not a Cygwin-specific issue. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 09:25 AM 4/20/2001, Lescher Christian wrote: >Yes, that's more or less what I'm trying to do: I want to build a DLL, that should be callable from Visual Basic for Applications/MS Access. >(I use Haskell/GHC, http://haskell.org/ghc and I want to expose a Haskell function in a DLL.) > >Is there a general problem about this? > >Christian > > > Uhm sorry if I missed something here.. are you doing something like > > allocating memory in cygwin that is freed on visual, or the other way > > around.. > > > > I don't think that is a good idea.. At least not when you are using > > Visual and Borland, so I guess the same problem might happen with > > Visual and cygwin. > > > > /Andy > > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple