Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] RE: [PHP-DEV] Differences in VC6 and VC9 Windows builds and MSSQL Driver.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:22 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>> hi!
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> And in windows (which is different to UNIX), it is possible to have more
>>> than one CRT in one single process (because linking in windows is *not* only
>>> dependent on the symbol name, it uses symbol name *AND* dll name for
>>> linking).
>>
>> With the risk to repeat myself: mixing CRT is a bad idea. Whether it
>> works with SWS or not is not really relevant as all the stack has to
>> work (all libs, all deps, etc.). I still think that moving away from
>> VC6 is the way to go and I'm happy to see than Sun is considering VC9
>> :)
>
> In this case, Une is 100% correct.  If you are not free()ing what had
> been malloc()ed for you by the other msvcrt consumer, if you are not
> registering clib callbacks with atexit() and family, if you are not
> using FILE* or fd's created in one msvcrt within the other, you
> *should* be 100% safe.

Memory and handles, that makes a pretty high numbers of WTF. I'm not
saying that is not possible, I'm saying that it is a (very) bad idea.
Especially in php with all its dependencies.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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