Re: Tracing CComBSTR leaks

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:09:55 -0800

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Ah, I forgot to mention that then you should change the
implementation of all affected methods to free their
[in, out] arguments before assigning the return value...

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"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Any text editor that can search will do. Make sure you
have no [out] arguments throughout your IDL file. [in, out]
and [out, retval] are ok.

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"Richard Hollis" <richnews@littleredfrog.com> wrote in message
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I've come across some leaks in my ATL objects which are around the use
of CComBSTRs and [out] parameter - the documented behaviour unless
Empty is used. I think I've fixed most of them, but I want to be sure.
What tool(s) can I use to trap these leaks and ensure that I have
caught all of them? I'm debugging in the COM surrogate for IIS -
dllhost.

Thanks
Richard

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