Limitations of #pragma section shared, rws

[Semprini]

Hiya,

I'm programming a dll in VC6 which is uses windows hooks (WH_GETMESSAGE) . So I have a HOOKPROC which is called whenever messages are sent the the monitored hwnd

I have a shared data segment like so:

#pragma data_seg("SHARED")
...variables in here
#pragma data_seg()
#pragma comment(linker, "/section:SHARED,RWS")
 

If I put a variable of a class, struct or std::vector (probably anything but simple types) into the shared segment when the HOOKPROC is called the variable is null

I must be missing something about how the shared segment works. Anybody have any ideas? I'd love to be able to have a std::list of a structure containing info about what messages the HOOKPROC should reply to and how to reply.

Looks like I'll have to use arrays of hwnd's and others for the moment...

Cheers,

Semprini

[Semprini]

After further investigation it seems that all my shared variables need to be initialized:

this doesn't work:

#pragma data_seg("aSHARED")
static DWORD g_dwProcessIDs[MAX_MSGHOOKS];
#pragma data_seg()
#pragma comment(linker, "/section:aSHARED,RWS")
 

but this does:

#pragma data_seg("aSHARED")
static DWORD g_dwProcessIDs[MAX_MSGHOOKS] = {0};
#pragma data_seg()
#pragma comment(linker, "/section:aSHARED,RWS")
 

Why would the variable go out of scope if not initialized??

[Cronus]

After further investigation it seems that all my shared variables need to be initialized:

this doesn't work:

#pragma data_seg("aSHARED")
static DWORD g_dwProcessIDs[MAX_MSGHOOKS];
#pragma data_seg()
#pragma comment(linker, "/section:aSHARED,RWS")
 

but this does:

#pragma data_seg("aSHARED")
static DWORD g_dwProcessIDs[MAX_MSGHOOKS] = {0};
#pragma data_seg()
#pragma comment(linker, "/section:aSHARED,RWS")
 

Why would the variable go out of scope if not initialized??

data_seg is for initialized data. You can also specify sections for const variables (const_seg), uninitialized data (bss_seg), and functions (code_seg).