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Re: Euphoria DLLs

• Posted by Robert Elia <bobelia200 at netzero.net> Apr 27, 2003
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At 07:17 PM 4/27/03 +0200, you wrote:

>
>Hello Bob, you wrote:
>
>[...]
>
> >          I tried your "trick", Rob, but got the same unpredictable
> > behavior.  I even tried allocating the buffer with:
> >
> >          pErrorDescription = c_func(GlobalAlloc, {GMEM_FIXED, 500})
> >          pErrorDescription = c_func(GlobalLock, {pErrorDescription})
> >
> > from KERNEL32.DLL.  ...made no difference.  ctrace_d.out shows the poke in
> > the DLL function as the last statement executed.
>
>In the other message that I posted at almost the same time than this one,
>there is a test in which I didn't allocate any memory at all.
>If I didn't make a mistake somewhere in that test, it looks as if it
>simply isn't possible, to pass a value bigger than  power(2,31) - 1
>as argument to a routine in the DLL (without using E_ATOM etc.,
>of course).
>
> > Two days later....
> >
> >          I've managed to get a stripped down version working okay.  It
> > didn't need Rob's trick.
>
>Maybe you didn't pass any value bigger than power(2,31) - 1
>as argument to a routine in the DLL?

Yes, that's true.  All pointers that were passed were in the 5,000,000 
range.  Obviously, we can't depend on that happening in all environments.

> > The problem must be somewhere else.  If I find it,
> > I'll post it.  After that, the next step is to write a test program in C.
> >
> >                  Thanks again,
> >
> >                  Bob
>
>I hope, we will solve this puzzle.

Me too.  I imagine that it would be required to do things like make plugins 
in EU.

                 Bob

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