Re: AxDialogImpl FAILS with static ATL dll linkage in WM_CREATE

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:44:28 -0700
Message-ID:
<OmfwDOilGHA.1972@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
BoundsChecker, Rational Purify, and Insure++ are all products
that can help you in tracking memory issues. Naturally all of them
are quite expensive...

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"Jens Bohlmann" <jens.bohlmann@bytemee.de> wrote in message
news:eqblBqelGHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Hy,
after several retries i think so too. Is there a way to detect them by
stadard/atl methods?

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ePtxbMVlGHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Seems to != is. You have a memory corruption bug elsewhere
in your code, so you better invest the effort to find and fix it...

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"Jens Bohlmann" <jens.bohlmann@bytemee.de> wrote in message
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Hy all,

i have a problem since VC.NET 2005 in an exististing CAxDialogImpl<...>
app.

While creation with any AX control (e.g. Microsoft Forms 2.0.TextBox) on
the dialog the app while throw an assertion in malloc.h , line 245

"Corrupted pointer passed to _freea"

called from AtlAxWindowProc2 from destructor of spName

Assertion is only thrown on static ATL linkage - not on linkage to
ATL80.DLL

But probramm seems to be running o.k. if assertion are ignored.

Has anybody an idea, how to solve this?

My settings in stdafx.h:

#define STRICT

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400

#endif

#define _ATL_APARTMENT_THREADED

#ifndef WINVER

#define WINVER 0x0400 // We ar backward compatible

#endif

#include <atlbase.h>

#include <atlapp.h>

extern CAppModule _Module;

#include <atlcom.h>

from atlhost.h (nLen is actually getting 0 in that call):

static LRESULT CALLBACK AtlAxWindowProc2(HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM
wParam, LPARAM lParam) {

switch(uMsg)

{

case WM_CREATE:

{

// create control from a PROGID in the title

// This is to make sure drag drop works

::OleInitialize(NULL);

CREATESTRUCT* lpCreate = (CREATESTRUCT*)lParam;

int nLen = ::GetWindowTextLength(hWnd);

CAutoStackPtr<TCHAR> spName((TCHAR *)_malloca ((nLen + 1) *
sizeof(TCHAR))); ....

}

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