Re: DLL:s and global variables

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Date: 10/25/03

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:47:05 +0200

In news:_irmb.75$Z_6.19@read3.inet.fi, Kalle Rutanen typed:

> It seems that a DLL has it's own copies of applications global
> variables. How do you use application's global variables in a DLL ?

What you is a thing called shared memory. Under win32 this is often
implemented as calls to CreateFileMapping() and MapViewOfFile(), do a search
on google for more details. People have done it before :-)

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