Re: CComObject CreateInstance Fails but only sometimes. Very bizarre behavior
"Dave" <csharpuser@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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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