Subj : Re: String memory Allocation
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Mon Oct 04 2004 09:45 pm

It is not as involved as you think.

On the first call the pointer to the string to search and the pointer 
to the search elements are passed to the function.

On subsequent calls the pointer to the string to search argument is 
NULL.

For a single-threaded version of the function it must keep a pointer 
to the character following what it has already searched.  It can do 
that with a static variable, a pointer.

For multi-threaded programs the runtime library sets up a memory block 
for storage related to the instance of the thread so instead of a 
single static variable, it maintains a single variable in each of the 
thread memory blocks.

I used "TLS", an akronym which stands for "Thread Local Storage".

..  Ed

> M. Finch wrote in message
> news:4161d882$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> oh my!!!
>
> I'm going to have to spend some time looking at this as you just 
> blew WAY
> past my knowledge level on this.
>
> Thank you gentlemen.
> I appreciate the input.

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