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Andrue Cope wrote:

>> OTOH - doesn't VCL throw exceptions, also when it is used as a BPL ?
>
>Yes but a VCL BPL can reasonably assume that the thing calling it is VCL
>compatible code. Remy isn't saying that it won't work - he's saying that it
>depends on who is calling the DLL.
>
>If you are writing a DLL that will absolutely, without question, only be
>called by your own code generated by the same compiler with the appropriate
>switches then you can do it.
>
>The issue is that one of the main reasons for having DLLs, one of their
>main features, is that they aren't supposed to be tied to a specific EXE
>like that. By implementing your project that way you are producing a
>non-standard DLL.
>
>It is generally best to consider a DLL as a separate executable. Assume
>that the only thing that can safely cross the boundary is POD (Plain Old
>Data - nothing you can't create in 'C'). I'd even think twice about letting
>floating point numbers out of a DLL frankly.

This makes sense. Thanks!

/sten
/sten
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