Hello,
I'm looking for information about the loading/unloading of unmanaged dlls.
Using the debugger I think it works as follows : the unmanaged DLL is
loaded as soon as a call to one of it's functions is made. After that,
it's kept in memory till the last call to it (by the managed program) is
done. After that it's unloaded.
Is this behaviour correct? Or is it possible that the DLL is unloaded
somewhere halfway my program? If I make a call to it than do
calculations for 4 days and then call it again would it stay loaded in
memory?
I was thinking about calling an initializing function which allocates
memory and use it later but i can't find any articles stating if that
would work or not (especially when the dll doesn't contain a
DllMain-function which is used to keep reference if i understand it well)
TIA
Yves
3  1932 
AFAIK once a DLL is loaded via P/Invoke it us nt unloaded until the process exits. Are you seeing smething different?
Regards
Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog
Hello,
I'm looking for information about the loading/unloading of unmanaged dlls.
Using the debugger I think it works as follows : the unmanaged DLL is
loaded as soon as a call to one of it's functions is made. After that,
it's kept in memory till the last call to it (by the managed program) is
done. After that it's unloaded.
Is this behaviour correct? Or is it possible that the DLL is unloaded
somewhere halfway my program? If I make a call to it than do
calculations for 4 days and then call it again would it stay loaded in
memory?
I was thinking about calling an initializing function which allocates
memory and use it later but i can't find any articles stating if that
would work or not (especially when the dll doesn't contain a
DllMain-function which is used to keep reference if i understand it well)
TIA
Yves
Unless you are explicitely unloading/unmapping the dll (by calling
FreeLibrary), it stays mapped into the process space until process shutdown.
Willy.
"Yves Dhondt" <no@privacy.net > wrote in message
news:41******** *************** @news.skynet.be ... Hello,
I'm looking for information about the loading/unloading of unmanaged dlls.
Using the debugger I think it works as follows : the unmanaged DLL is
loaded as soon as a call to one of it's functions is made. After that,
it's kept in memory till the last call to it (by the managed program) is
done. After that it's unloaded.
Is this behaviour correct? Or is it possible that the DLL is unloaded
somewhere halfway my program? If I make a call to it than do calculations
for 4 days and then call it again would it stay loaded in memory?
I was thinking about calling an initializing function which allocates
memory and use it later but i can't find any articles stating if that
would work or not (especially when the dll doesn't contain a
DllMain-function which is used to keep reference if i understand it well)
TIA
Yves
Not at all, just wanted to be sure about it, I couldn't find it back in the
docs.
Thanks
Yves
"Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor]" <ri******@devel op.com> wrote in message
news:ei******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P09.phx.gbl... AFAIK once a DLL is loaded via P/Invoke it us nt unloaded until the
process exits. Are you seeing smething different?
Regards
Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog
Hello,
I'm looking for information about the loading/unloading of unmanaged dlls.
Using the debugger I think it works as follows : the unmanaged DLL is
loaded as soon as a call to one of it's functions is made. After that,
it's kept in memory till the last call to it (by the managed program) is
done. After that it's unloaded.
Is this behaviour correct? Or is it possible that the DLL is unloaded
somewhere halfway my program? If I make a call to it than do
calculations for 4 days and then call it again would it stay loaded in
memory?
I was thinking about calling an initializing function which allocates
memory and use it later but i can't find any articles stating if that
would work or not (especially when the dll doesn't contain a
DllMain-function which is used to keep reference if i understand it well)
TIA
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