Re: CComObject CreateInstance Fails but only sometimes. Very bizarre behavior

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:49:32 -0400
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"Dave" <csharpuser@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184424470.083493.124910@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com

I inherited some legacy ATL code and am completely baffled by one
particular bug. In a certain scenarios, the following fails:

  CComObject<CFormattedRegistration>* pReg = 0;
  HRESULT hr =
      CComObject<CFormattedRegistration>::CreateInstance(&pReg);

Really, I'm just looking for some hints to get me going on how to
start debugging this.


The return value of CreateInstance very likely comes from
CFormattedRegistration::FinalConstruct. Start debugging there.

Another possibility for error is simply failure to allocate memory.
Perhaps you have severe memory leak that manifests this way? This is a
pretty long shot though.
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