hmmmm.... 2nd try :)

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Did you forget the attachment? ;-)

----- Original Message ----- From: <corno@dds.nl> To: <pdimov@mmltd.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 0:39 Subject: Re: [Boost-Users] MS VS 6: passing boost::shared_ptr<T> to a

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Thanx Craig, that turned out to be the problem for VC++ as well.

Yep, but shared_ptr is supposed to work in this case, in theory. ;-)

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look into this. Any more information that can help me find the

Your problem was that the EXE was using the single-threaded runtime, but the DLL has been set to multithreaded. The mutex lock in the DLL was spinning forever. When I set both to multi-threaded, it works, even with different heaps. Interesting issue. It can be made to work even in this case but this will cost performance. ----- Original Message ----- From: <corno@dds.nl> To: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 13:52 Subject: Re: [Boost-Users] MS VS 6: passing boost::shared_ptr<T> to a dll function dll problem?

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Peter,

I made 2 small projects that illustrate the problem. (change the path to the boost lib ofcourse) It can very likely be that I am doing something terribly stupid :) but anyways, here's what I see;

If I build and run it with a single memory manager I see output for all 4 steps. If I build and run it with separated memory managers I see output for step 1 and 2 only and then it hangs.

Corno