On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:38:20 +0100, Joris Huizer wrote:
To see how far we are, I tried grepping to get This->refs stuff grep -r -n -e 'TRACE(.*This->ref)' * grep -r -n "++(This->ref)" * grep -r -n -- "--(This->ref)" *
I hope there are a lot of false positives there :-/
You realise that not every object has to be thread safe, right? In fact quite a few don't. Also some COM objects are internal, and others inc the lock count inside a mutex. Finally the first grep doesn't matter as reading a refcount is atomic anyway (but not adding or subtracting).
Paul Vriens was posting patches in which references to This->ref in TRACE calls were replaced by a variable containing the value of This->ref - I can't remember why this was necessary, but I don't think he's doing it just for the fun of it;
I also saw, at least some of the patches were in files not listed on the janiturial page; should that list be updated? how could we see wether a given dll directory needs cleaning up?
regards,
Joris
