[fpc-pascal] DLL calling Firebird 2: crashes at the end

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 28/09/2014 13:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> But when your code modifies strings in the context of the database
>> library they're preallocated C-type strings, i.e. can't be extended or
>> shrunk so don't make unexpected reference to any memory manager.
> Yes, I agree. However, this problem should also appear in regular FPC
> applications + Firebird library, right? Why don't I see any problems there?
> As mentioned, I'm using regular sqldb to talk to Firebird, nothing special.
> 
> 
>> Interesting. So if I understand you correctly it's only when you've got
>> two levels of dynamically-loaded library, i.e. one DLL is responsible
>> for loading another.
> Yes. When/if I add Postgresql support we may now more ;)
> 
>> Now would probably be a good time to try Postgres as an alternative.
> Ah, a mind reader ;)

I think the first thing I'd try is a trivial program+DLL checking that 
the DLL can initialise a database library, in case there's something 
wrong with multistage initialisation.

If I understand things correctly, your app is linking to the custom 
library as part of the program-load operation handled by the OS, but the 
custom library is opening the database library dynamically. It might be 
worth checking this latter part with utter paranoia, my recollection is 
that the FPC loader library now saves any error message returned by the 
OS and I've found this useful in the past.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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