Re: Typelib marshalling BSTRs

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Perhaps, this really indicates some kind of problem with the loading / linking 
> > or the spec.c file or something like that?  Does the behavior change if you 
> > take out the RpcTryFinally?  I would guess not.
>
> It does not. To recap:
>
> REFIID riid = NULL;  - fails, because assignments to it are silently
> ignored
>
> REFIID riid;
> riid = NULL;  -  works, because ..... it confuses the gremlins?

Is this in a callback function and riid isn't used in the function? If
yes then the gcc is probably throwing the variable away. Did you tried
to compile it with -O0 or just put a "volatile" in front of it:
volatile REFIID riid = NULL;

bye
    michael