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jcelerier on Aug 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome

> passing a heap allocated thing from one c++ dll to another doesn't work.

this is chromium, everything is built from source with the same compiler, there is zero issue with doing that.

This only does not work when using a DLL built with, say, visual studio 2008 and another built with 2015.

mkoubaa on Aug 21, 2020 [–]

Actually a DLL built with the same version but with either a different c runtime library (e.g. MD or MT) or a different target (release or debug) will have this problem

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