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The COM marshaller uses the COM task allocator to allocate and free memory

September 23, 2009 Sep 23, 2009 09/23/09

Raymond Chen

It should be second nature to you that the code which allocates memory and the code which frees memory need to use the same allocator. Most of the time, you think of it as "If you allocate memory, you need to free it with the corresponding mechanism," but this sentence works in the reverse direction as well: If you hand memory to a function ...