operator new[] fails in DLL when being called from within VB6 process

Hi,

I have written a DLL in C/C++ which is used by a VB6 program. Everything works fine unless the DLL uses the operator new[] - e.g.

  m_pBuffer = new CHAR[ dwApproxPayloadLen ];

then an Access Violation Exception is thrown within ntdll!_RtlAllocHeap.

Calling
  CFoo *f = new Cfoo()
works just fine - only arrays will not work.

The same code works just fine when being called from a C/C++ program.

Is there something special about calling CRT functions when my lib is loaded into a VB6 process? Maybe VB6 does not initialize the CRT as it does not use it or something like that?

Thanks in advance,
  Jo
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