Re: COM object not being released if it created other objects internally...
"kombat" <ohadpr@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I've got an ATL EXE that hosts several COM objects.
There's a main object that creates the others inside an Init
(previously was in FinalConstruct).
When this main object is released by whoever created it, it is not
destoryed (FinalRelease and stoppage of EXE).
If I don't create the internal COM objects, it is destoyed (5 seconds
after being released by whoever created it).
Do you perhaps inadvertently create a circular reference? Do these
internal objects hold strong references on the main object, by any
chance?
Put breakpoints into main object's AddRef and Release, try to figure out
where they are called from.
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