Hello,

I am developing an application that makes use of rather advanced memory allocation techniques. My application makes use of "plug-in modules" in the form of DLLs that are loaded at runtime. The problem is this: the DLL exports a function that is passed a pointer to a class. This pointer is passed by the application. Now, the DLL must be able to call a member function, accessed through the passed pointer. This function allocates memory. Whenever this function is called, though, the application generates an assertion failure. I looked at the MFC code and found that an assertion error will be generated if it encounters a pointer to non-local memory - which is clearly the case here.

How can I work around this?

Thank you,
marius.

Don't you mean a pointer to an instance of the class (an object)?
Well, do you instantiate the class the pointer is pointing to? If you want to call a (non-static) method, you should have an instance of the class, right?
Just "export" this class from the dll also, make an instance of it, and pass a pointer to it.

Hope I got this right - if not, please explain.

Best regards,
Luci

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