Re: working together on stdole.tlb and a end to dcom9x

[Jacek Caban]

Filip Navara wrote:
> Jacek Caban wrote:
> [snip]
> > I don't thik it Wine's bug. Applications don't depend on this stuff 
> > and Wine's ref handling is correct.
>
> Of course that applications depend on this stuff. This is common code:
>   LoadTypeLib("stdole.tlb", &ptlibStdOle);
>   ptlibStdOle->GetTypeInfoOfGuid(IID_IUnknown, &ptinfoIUnknown));
>   ptlibStdOle->GetTypeInfoOfGuid(IID_IDispatch, &ptinfoIDispatch));
>   ptlibStdOle->Release();
> Now with Wine the last Release will cause the typelib object to be 
> destroyed and resulting that any later typeinfo references to typelib 
> are invalid pointers.

I know that. My patch:
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/08/0167.html
fixes this problem (patch is applied).