Does a memory leak at unload of a DLL cause a leak in the host process?

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Published on 2008-09-25T09:02:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 18:33 UTC
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Consider this case:

dll = LoadDLL()
dll->do()

...
void do() {
    char *a = malloc(1024);
}
...

UnloadDLL(dll);

At this point, will the 1k allocated in the call to malloc() be available to the host process again? The DLL is statically linking to the CRT.

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