Indeed, several years ago there was fairly popular and effective software that used simulated annealing to minimize chip distance between directly connected chips (hence wiring, hence heat dissipation) on circuit boards. It was called "Timberwolf" or some similar marketing inspired name.

<t>I'd really rather avoid learning COM for this issue -- the time invested doesn't seem worth it. I don't think it's a name mangling issue. To create the DLL, I'm using C++ in Visual Studio with a .DEF file, and everything seems to be called OK. It literally seems that the new operator fails in rat...

<t>Hi All.I have a recurring problem with calling very straightforward C++ DLLs from VBA (i.e. from a module in an Excel spreadsheet). Memory allocation for anything more complex than a double -- especially if I'm using the STL -- goes completely awry and causes Excel to shut down (using older versi...