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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> But if we only use the dynamic allocation then it can only fail for
> a combination of 3rd party code.

You meant to say static here, e.g. when there are two libraries
linked into a single aplication, and both libraries want to get
entry #6, right?

In the dynamic case, this will Just Work(tm), because each one
will end up getting a different value.

-- Terry