Sharing a pointer in a DLL

Hi,

This problem is a bit similar to the Shared memory problem under C Programming topic. But I could not use the solution suggested there in this problem. The problem is as follows:

I have a DLL(DLL1) that is used by an application and another DLL (DLL2). There are certain variables in
the DLL1 that are shared by the other 2. This shared segment is placed under pragma directive as

#pragma data_seg("APP_Shared")
BOOL gbLinkUp = FALSE;
APP_Handle ghAppHandle = NULL;
DWORD gdwEventId = 0;  and so on
#pragma data_seg()

One of these shared variables happens to be a pointer(AppHandle) that is allocated by a proprietary library accessed by the DLL. This obviously is
causing the problem when one application updates this variable and the other tries to use it as the contents of the pointer are messed up. My query is "How do we share a pointer between 2 applications using a common
DLL?"

Is there some other alternative that I should be opting given that I cannot change the Proprietary library allocating the pointer. For eg: store the pointer separately in App and DLL2 and pass it to DLL1 wherever it's used instead of storing in DLL1 as shared global. Please Suggest

Thanks
- Divya