Good work, Alexey! I've been confused by the symptoms for a while. Thanks, -xiaofeng
On 10/17/07, Alexey Varlamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking on HARMONY-3964 "[drlvm][build] missing MSVCR71D.DLL > dependency for debug builds", I'm surprised to realize that only GC > dlls in VM ever depend on MSVCR*.DLL, no matter release or debug. > All the rest of VM is linked against static LIBCMTD.LIB so every dll > carries it's own copy of C runtime, with independent heaps and static > data! Now it explains all that troubles with bad frees in > HARMONY-3772, and why each dll has to disable assert dialog > individually (HARMONY-4715). I've just tried fully dynamic build and > indeed all these problems are gone. > > I guess why it was done so, and the only reason I could think of is > historycal. Does anyone knows other explanation? Otherwise I believe > the build must be fixed to link with MSVCRxx.DLL always. Especially as > we already redistribute them with classlib. > > NB related links covering this topic: > [1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh(VS.71).aspx > [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/04/29/123090.aspx > -- http://xiao-feng.blogspot.com
