On Saturday, June 24, 2006 05:47, Olaf Schmidt wrote: > Hi *.*, > > seems, that the Ole-BSTR-Concat doesn't work anymore: > (Debian Sid, from wine 0.9.12 upwards - wine configured, > to use the builtin Ole-Stuff) > > In VB-Applications (wich are using (wide) Ole-BSTRs under > the hood), I can reduce the problem to the following: > > If I define two Strings with the Content: > > S1, containing a Zero WChar > (BSTR-LenDescriptor=2, ByteSequence 0 0) > > and S2, containing "A|Zero|B" > (BSTR-LenDescriptor=6, ByteSequence 65 0 | 0 0 | 66 0) > > and then do the concat: > SResult = S1 + S2 > > the resulting string contains only an "A" > (BSTR-LenDescriptor=2, ByteSequence 65 0) > > instead of the correct ByteSequence: 0 0 | 65 0 | 0 0 | 66 0 > > That means, that the current implementation does not use > the BSTR-Len-Descriptor anymore (it has worked in 0.9.10 > or 0.9.11 - not very sure, but think it was 0.9.11 in my last tests) > Instead it now behaves like routines, wich have to concat > Zero-Terminated Strings. > > Nothing changed in my wine-configuration - only apt-getted to > 0.9.12 first -> then to the latest 0.9.16 (ubuntu-deb) -> same > problem. > > Do you handle the OLE-BSTR-stuff directly in wine, or do you > give that jobs to other Libs in the system (the 0.9.12er winelib- > update has also changed some dependencies (Gtk, libc* and > others)? > > Olaf Schmidt
If you could do a regression test and find the specific patch that broke things, that would be very helpful. See section 6.1 of http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine for regression testing. - Neil
