Re: Application crash on calling a COM method
Gopal wrote:
At the outset, apologies for not providing the exact code. I cannot share the
code snippets here.
I have an MFC application which uses a normal win32 helper DLL. This DLL
inturn #imports a COM server (out of process EXE) which has a an interface
derived from IDispatch. Now all I do in the win32 dll is
- CoCreateInstance
- Addref
- Intf->function()
- Release
The above code worked perfectly fine when I was compiling it in VC6. The
moment I moved the MFC app and the win32 to VS2005, my application crashes
randomly after the function is called. This may happen at the first instance,
or sometime it takes 10-15 tries to get it to crash.
I suspect some kind of memory corruption because of marshalling, but haven't
quite been able to catch the culprit.
Any pointers would be of immense help.
regards,
~GOpal
So, tell us what is involved in the function call; are you passing any objects in either direction? Where does your app crash;
i.e., what code is executing when the crash occurs? Is it an access violation? Are you able to make it happen with a debugger (VS,
WinDbg, ADPlus, DebugDiag, etc.) attached?
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