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<h3 class="subsection">3.9.3 Working around library misfeatures</h3>

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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.
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<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 &lsquo;<tt>mwrap.h</tt>&rsquo;. This section
briefly documents how they might be put to use.
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