Does a memory leak at unload of a DLL cause a leak in the host process?
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Consider this case:
dll = LoadDLL()
dll->do()
...
void do() {
char *a = malloc(1024);
}
...
UnloadDLL(dll);
At this point, will the 1k allocated in the call to malloc() be available to the host process again? The DLL is statically linking to the CRT.
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