Re: [Boost-users] Re: Memory leak reported using threads library

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-24 06:14:30

> Naturally boost::threads is a dll only (at least v 1.30 which i'm 
> currently
> using) and it itself can either link dynamically or statically to the crt.
> It doesn't make any difference which though. I have to link dynamically to
> crt in my program to avoid the leak. Why should this make a difference?

That's your problem: there must be one single rtl shared both by your code 
and the Boost.Threads dll: and that means using the dynamic C runtime. 
Frankly I'm surprised your code didn't just crash if you were mixing 
runtimes :-(

John.