Re: AddRef and Release
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You can omit pairs of matching AddRef/Release in many cases. For
example, in your code you could remove the first such pair if the
first ellipsis doesn't contain pI1->Release() call, and similarly
for the second pair.
I think your method has risk if pI1, pI2 and pI3 are pointing to
different object instances -- it will counter is each different
component in an unmanaged manner, right?
Wrong. Show me exactly how you believe this code is at risk.
(currently, I think even if the code I wrote is redundant, it should
be safe. And to make it exception safe, I need to use RAII pattern.)
Quite. See CComPtr and CComQIPtr
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