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. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> hi! >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Uwe Schindler <thetaphi@php.net> 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 http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org