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From: Benny Hill
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 14:25

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I understand that it is a bad idea to create an object in a dll 
and then free the memory for that object in the calling program.

My question is:

if I create an "Example" object described like this:

class Example{
public:
   std::vector<std::string> Var;
};

in my executable and then call a function in a dll that looks like this:

void DLLMethod(Example& ex){
   std::string str = "some brand new string";
   ex.Var.push_back(str);
}

who allocated the memory for the new string object in my vector?  The
executable "owns" the vector but the allocation occured in the DLL.

Thanks,
Benny

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