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From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>
Cc: kyra <kyrab@mail.ru>, OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCam'OLE pre-release
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:32:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020805113255.C7554@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003b01c23c54$32324570$0700a8c0@warp>; from warplayer@free.fr on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:46:22AM +0200

> The job of the GC is to release unreferenced objects.
> But I don't see how this can cause a bug : it seems that your crash is due
> to a call of a COM method on a object AFTER it has been released... if it
> has been Release, then it is no longer referenced by Ocaml... so , how can u
> ever call a method on it ???

Because the COM object can still be referenced from C.  You probably
forgot to do an AddRef somewhere, e.g. when extracting a COM object
reference from its Caml wrapper.

Reference count management sure is tricky...

- Xavier Leroy
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-05  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-30 19:19 Nicolas Cannasse
2002-07-31 12:06 ` [Caml-list] OCam'OLE pre-release (mirror) Nicolas Cannasse
2002-07-31 12:48   ` Samuel Lacas
2002-07-31 13:13     ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-07-31 13:30       ` Samuel Lacas
2002-08-01 23:39 ` [Caml-list] OCam'OLE pre-release kyra
2002-08-02 10:13   ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-08-02 23:26     ` kyra
2002-08-02 23:23       ` Quetzalcoatl Bradley
2002-08-04 12:00         ` kyra
2002-08-03 11:47     ` kyra
2002-08-05  7:46       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-08-05  9:32         ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-08-05  9:51           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-08-06 12:15             ` kyra
2002-08-07  8:55               ` Nicolas Cannasse

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