Re: Proposal: Ref Counting Conventions

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com> writes:

> 
> I just checked the rules for Reference Counting on the Microsoft OLE
> Programmer's Reference, page 191 and 192, and no mention to this
> broken behaviour exists for inout parameters.
> 
> So Microsoft and I were right ;-).

...

> 
> Hey hey hey there.  We were right.  I do not know where you pulled
> this card, but it was not from the documentation.

I hope I won't embarass the original poster (Michael Fleming) too much
by pointing out that due to previous work experience he is in a
position to know better than either you or the docs what exactly
Microsoft's conventions for COM refcounting are.

 - Maciej