Re: Is there any problems if there are multiple MFC dlls in one pr

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:30:19 +0100
Message-ID:
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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:c78aq35lgapps6pu2q1j5tv6cjknd7uv9k@4ax.com...

Suppose the DLLs use extern "C" linkages: there is no
name mangling. So if my function is defined as

extern "C" void DoSomething(LPCTSTR p);

and has been compiled with an ANSI build, it is known as

DoSomething

and the actual prototype is

void DoSomething(const char * p);

If you call it from a Unicode app, you call it as

DoSomething(L"ABC");

the linker is perfectly happy to link to a function called DoSomething,
and pass a pointer
to an LPCTSTR which is now thought to be a const wchar_t *, so what gets
seen by the
function is the string
"A"
not the string
L"ABC"
and the only way to discover that this has happened is when the string is
too short!


Hi Joe,

I don't agree with your analysis.

I think that, in the scenario you described, you will get an *error*, and
the build process will stop (and that is good :)

In fact, to verify my hypothesis, I tried that with VS2008, and I got this
error:

Error 1 error C2664: 'DoSomething' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const
wchar_t [5]' to 'const char *'

(I called a DoSomething prototyped as 'void DoSomething(const char*)' using
'DoSomething( L"Ciao" );' )

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
Giovanni

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