COM object destructors are very sensitive functions

Raymond Chen September 27, 2005 Sep 27, 2005 09/27/05

If you try to do too much, you can find yourself in trouble. For example, if your destructor hands a reference to itself to other functions, those functions might decide to call your IUnknown::AddRef and IUnknown::Release methods as part of their internal operations. Consider: ULONG MyObject::Release() { LONG cRef = InterlockedDecrement...