The work on the COM Connect to get rid of reference counting has
another comment issue.
In class COMObject, it says
privateDecrementReferenceCount
" Private - decrement the receiver's reference count. This is
the sum of the outstanding reference counts on all of its
interfaces. Release resources owned by the receiver if its
reference count goes to 0. "
referenceCount := referenceCount - 1.
referenceCount < 0
ifTrue:
[COMDevelopmentWarning
raiseSignal: (#WarnNamedTooManyRel1p2p <<
#com
>> 'Too many releases of <1p>
(<2p>)' expandMacrosWith: self
with: referenceCount)].
^referenceCount
so according to the comment resources should be released if counter
goes to zero, but aren't. Sounds obvious, if you do not count up on
AddRef, you cannot release on Release because the counter would
always be zero. But comment says differently.
Before the change, there was a line
referenceCount = 0 ifTrue: [self releaseResources].
that did that and that was removed.
I'm not yet sure how to deal with the loss of reference counting on
the one side, and releasing when done on the other, if you have
exposed objects. I'll have to digg more into that. Currently my
COMObjects don't disappear any more....
Thomas
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