Re: Sink Interface memory leak

From:
Shaw <nwshaw@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:19:13 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<22a027df-a268-43a2-b3e2-770ef5151b49@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 5, 10:18 am, "Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dica...@invalid.com>
wrote:

"Shaw" <nws...@yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggionews:786e05ae-6d06-4b3f-=

b586-3c25bfb6c926@j78g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...

void __stdcall CSinkInterface::OnUpdate(BSTR bstrData)
{

// ::SysFreeString(&bstrData);
}


IIRC, SysFreeString has as input a BSTR, so you don't need the address-of =

&

operator (just ::SysFreeString(bstrData); ).

It may be interesting to read more code, too.

However, if the string is created by the caller of your
CSinkInterface::OnUpdate, I would think that it should be the caller itsel=

f

to free the string, not your method implementation.

Giovanni


That was just a type by me - the &bstr - typed it in manually :)

static const int DISPID_SERVER_UPDATE = 1;

_ATL_FUNC_INFO OnUpdateInfo = {CC_STDCALL, VT_EMPTY, 1,
{VT_BSTR}};

class ATL_NO_VTABLE CSinkInterface :
    public CComObjectRootEx<CComMultiThreadModel>,
    public IUnknown,
     public IDispEventImpl<0, CSinkInterface, &DIID__ITOOLAPIEvents ,
&LIBID_TOOLAPILib, 1, 0>
{
public:
    CSinkInterface()
    {
        m_bAllowUpdates = FALSE;
    }

    BOOL m_bAllowUpdates;

DECLARE_NO_REGISTRY()

DECLARE_PROTECT_FINAL_CONSTRUCT()

BEGIN_COM_MAP(CSinkInterface)
    COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IUnknown)
END_COM_MAP()

BEGIN_SINK_MAP(CSinkInterface)
      SINK_ENTRY_INFO(0, DIID__ITOOLEvents, DISPID_SERVER_UPDATE,
OnUpdate, &OnUpdateInfo)
END_SINK_MAP()

// IUpdateNews
public:

    void __stdcall OnUpdate(BSTR bstrData);

};

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