Re: How to point SAFEARRAY to an already allocated BYTE[] ?
"Sharon" <SharonG@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:59642F8B-640B-408B-8DC6-E5A394943A1E@microsoft.com
Is this legal?
BYTE* data = new BYTE[1000];// The already allocated array to be
wrapped in the later SAFEARRAY
SAFEARRAY* safeArray = new SAFEARRAY();
safeArray->cbElements = 1;
safeArray->cDims = 1;
safeArray->cLocks = 0;
safeArray->fFeatures = 128;
safeArray->pvData = data;
safeArray->rgsabound[0].cElements = 1000;
safeArray->rgsabound[0].lLbound = 0;
It's not that easy. A SAFEARRAY has fields at negative offsets (that is,
before the address pointed to by SAFEARRAY* pointer). In particular, 128
for fFeatures is FADF_HAVEVARTYPE, which means the VARTYPE value is
present at offset -4 (in your case, that would be VT_UI1). You might
also want to set FADF_STATIC flag, just to be on a safe side
(SafeArrayDestroy on an array with this flag will fail).
And of course, you can only pass such a "fake" safearray as an [in]
parameter, where the callee won't try to modify it in any way.
--
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