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The biggest caveat is to ensure you are using the DLL version of the C Runtime library. If you use the static library version,

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have its own heap, and a pointer *must* be deallocated in

"Jim.Hyslop" writes: then each DLL will the same DLL in

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which it was allocated.

Please stop; this is misinformation. What I wrote holds true for raw pointers. I had assumed it also held true for the Boost smart pointers, but as you pointed out in the other email - and I verified with a quick test - the smart pointers get around this

David Abrahams wrote: problem. My apologies for the confusion. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)