Crash on Windows with core.stdc.stdlib.free()

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:40:30 +0000
Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> The following causes the DLL to crash on Windows:
> 
> Input: immutable(short)* data (immutable because in separate 
> thread).
> // Later
> core.stdc.stdlib.free(cast(short *)data);
> 
> (short* data is provided by the C library, where the memory is 
> allocated)
> 
> On Linux it works fine and never crashes, in the Windows DLL it 
> randomly causes an access violation in memory (both read and 
> write). Note that it doesn't crash immediately, it goes on for a 
> while, but sooner or later it crashes. If I comment out this 
> line, everything works fine. However, if I don't free the memory, 
> I'll have a memory leak. Any hints/advice/guesses?
p.s. i mean "different C runtimes".
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