I have no control over the memory allocation mechanism (it's an API I implement, not something I developed, and has been in place for 10+ years), and I don't deallocate the memory handed over to me, I just process the data the API presents me. 2016-10-26 0:36 GMT+02:00 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Balázs Oroszi <orobalage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't allocate the memory, I write a DLL and memory is handed to me >> as a byte array. > > In that case, you need to provide an allocator (and deallocator) so > users of the DLL can allocate memory used by the DLL. > > Providing the allocator is similar to the way Microsoft's Net* APIs > work. It avoids the problems with mismatched allocs/frees among > programs and DLLs, and it ensures your alignment requirements are met. > See, for example, NetApiBufferAllocate, NetApiBufferFree and > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370675(v=vs.85).aspx. > > Jeff >
