[vorbis-dev] new DLL additions in core libs

[Brian Havard]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:57:10 -0700, Chris Wolf wrote:

>On 9/13/2001 at 12:28 PM Brian Havard wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:16:38 -0700, Chris Wolf wrote:
>>
>>>On 9/13/2001 at 11:55 AM Brian Havard wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>OK.  So the basic problem is that static externs are unsharable?  
>>>>
>>>>That doesn't sound right. It should work if (and only if) the variables
>>are
>>>>declared to the dll's user using __declspec(dllimport).
>>>
>>>I'm afraid that's not really true.  That is just an optimization.
>>>To quote Microsoft's documentation:
>>>
>>>>You do not need to use _declspec(dllimport) for your code to compile
>>>>correctly, but doing so allows the compiler to generate better code. The
>>>>compiler is able to generate better code because it knows for sure
>>whether
>>>>a function exists in a DLL or not, so the compiler can produce codes that
>>>>skip a level of indirection that would normally be present in a function
>>>>call that crossed a DLL boundary. 
>>
>>That's not my experience. When porting a DLL of mine to Win32 I found that
>>I was getting total garbage when accessing an array exported from it until
>>I added the _declspec(dllimport). However, this was using Watcom C++, not
>>VC. I'd still give it a try if I were you.
>
>That's definitely not the case here, because I also tried compiling vorbisenc.c 
>into the main vorbis.dll, (one single DLL, no vorbisenc.dll) and the application ran fine.
>
>The problem is intra-DLL access, not DLL-application access, and yes, I tried
>it anyway before I made the claim that it didn't work.  The problem is not garbage
>upon dereferencing, the problem is an access violation upon an attempt to dereference.

Ok, I was just hoping to save you some trouble if was the same problem I'd
encountered as it took me a while to figure it out.


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