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Issue 3886 - Bad example of definition file for DLLs
Summary: Bad example of definition file for DLLs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dlang.org (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: Other Windows
: P2 normal
Assignee: No Owner
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Keywords: spec
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Reported: 2010-03-06 09:04 UTC by Rainer Schuetze
Modified: 2015-06-09 05:14 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Schuetze 2010-03-06 09:04:15 UTC 
dll.html "Writing Win32 DLLs in D" includes an example def-file with the line

DATA            PRELOAD SINGLE

which causes multiple processes that use the same DLL to share memory. This is not the normal use case for DLLs and causes crashes.

It should be

DATA         PRELOAD MULTIPLE