Re: static variables and dll/lib troubles
"BoHuang" <BoHuang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have a
static int* p = NULL;
declared in myLib.h
With myLib.cpp and other sources, I build a static lib myLib.lib
In my dll project, I link to myLib.lib to build a myDll.dll.
Moreover, myDll.cpp includes myLib.h to access the static int* p.
The intend is to assign a value to p from myDll.cpp, and let the functions
in myLib.cpp process it.
But even after the initial and only assignment in myDll.cpp, I noticed the
static pointer p may be non NULL in some cpp file but become NULL in
another.
I recall static variables are duplicated across dll/exes. But in my case I
have only one dll. My exe doesn't directly or indirectly include myLib.h.
The
exe offloads all work to dll.
Do I have any sort of boundary within the myDll.dll?
Would having extern "C" linkage in some files create duplicate variables?
I
thought they are functions only.
I did not think static variables were supposed to be used outside of the
..c/.cpp module they were declared in. If you want global linkage, don't use
static. In fact, I did not think static variables were even visible to
other .c/.cpp files in the same linkage unit (I.e. .exe or .dll) since the
linker did not generate a comdef for it in the .obj file that the static
variable was declared in. But if that's not happening, perhaps my
recollection is faulty.
But why don't you just not make the variable static?
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