[Development] ICU and Windows

[Yves Bailly]

Le 14/01/2013 13:31, Konstantin Tokarev a écrit :
>
> 14.01.2013, 15:56, "Pau Garcia i Quiles" <pgquiles at elpauer.org>:
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On segunda-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2013 08.31.19, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>>> Which is not always that easy... if a library function returns, say, an
>>>> simple std::string *by value*, then who will destroy the allocated memory?
>>>> It's really too easy to break something, somwhere, causing a random crash
>>>> almost impossible to reproduce reliably.
>>>
>>> The ICU C API does not use std::string: it was meant to be used from C code.
>>> It's quite easy to avoid std::string in that case.
>>
>> But as John said a few mails ago, it seems the C is not enough to implement all the required features.
>
> ICU provides C++ API but it does not use std::string. It operates on char * or UnicodeString objects.

Don't stay fixed on std::string or ICU, it was just given as a basic example in which it's
not always as easy to make sure allocated memory is freed in the same DLL ;-) This was just
an example in a broader discussion about mixing debug/release runtimes.

All I can tell after 10+ years programming heavy-weight apps on Windows, is "avoid
mixing runtimes at all cost". Just my own experience, nothing less, nothing more :-)

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