[fpc-pascal] Reproducible code: DLL calling Firebird crashes

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>> It is indeed true that all units are initialized once the main code block
>> of the library is called, but you are still inside the library
>> initialization initiated by the OS and thus you are subject to its
>> restrictions which in the case of Windows includes not to load any
>> libraries there.
> 
> So the obvious question might be if the unit initialization really  belongs
> into the library initialization like that.

Assuming that e.g. connecting to a database uses the Dynlibs unit, is 
there any way that this could recognise that it was being invoked from 
DLL/so initialisation code and raise a "don't try that here" exception?

Reinier: did you get as far as looking in Dynlibs for an error message 
immediately after trying to connect to the database?

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