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- <h4 class="subsection">3.9.3 Working around library misfeatures</h4>
- <p>As mentioned already (<a href="Implementing-new-library-functions.html#Implementing-new-library-functions">Implementing new library functions</a>), some
- common problems with external libraries that are worthwhile in other
- respects are that they may generate unwelcome console output while
- running, they may follow ill defined memory management policies, and
- they may handle exceptions just by crashing themselves along with the
- client module.
- <p>An accumulation of techniques for coping with these issues (short of
- modifying the library source) has been collected into the API and made
- available by way of the header file <samp><span class="file">mwrap.h</span></samp>. This section
- briefly documents how they might be put to use.
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