Re: Using TLSAlloc to read data into a DLL

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:18:16 -0500
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"Sanjay" <sanjay.gangadhara@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:98123adf-deae-4300-ac94-e51386c97a95@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com

Thanks for your response. I was a bit unclear in my earlier message,
which may or may not affect your answer. The DLL I am building is
multi-threaded. I want to be able to read in the data during the
DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, as you indicate (when the DLL is first loaded). I
then want this data to be available to other threads of the DLL, which
may be called at various times. I thought that you would need to use
TlsAlloc, etc. to be able to do this - that global variables are not
passed between threads. Is this correct?


This is incorrect. All threads have access to global variables. Just do
it, you don't need anything special.
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