Re: proxy/stub woes
Reentrancy is almost always an issue with STA. Nothing
related to your interfaces not being Automation-compatible
however...
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"Jason S" <jmsachs@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168970256.499787.52840@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com...
Hold it right there. You can't do this. BSTR's must be created either
directly or indirectly using SysAllocString(). This is a serious bug
which
basically destabalizes your program and it is only a matter of time until
your program crashes.
Fix this first, and any other spots like it.
Yes, I know that, I spent an hour wondering why the strings weren't
being marshalled, before I finally figured it out (I think I meant to
use CComBSTR to handle the proper allocation/deallocation and typed
BSTR by mistake)
I'm just wondering what other gotchas there are. These are
apartment-model (single-threaded) servers, & I'm wondering whether the
re-entrancy (C1 calling SPROC calling SLOCAL which runs within C1's
process) is an issue.
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