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The strange behavior of this code

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dh - 31 Jul 2008 08:07 GMT
If the put the code,

IntPtr ptr = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(4);
hr = em.Next(monikers.Length, monikers, ptr);
x = Marshal.ReadInt32(p);
// Use x below
...
...
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(p);

into a loop like this,

while(i < 5)
{
IntPtr ptr = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(4);
hr = em.Next(monikers.Length, monikers, ptr);
x = Marshal.ReadInt32(p);
// Use x below
...
...
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(p);
}

It would throw AccessViolation exception. Sometimes at AllocCoTaskMem();
other times at FreeCoTaskMem(). Any idea why that?

Thanks!
DH
Göran Andersson - 31 Jul 2008 09:17 GMT
> If the put the code,
>
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> {
>  IntPtr ptr = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(4);

I don't see that you free that memory anywhere in the code...

>  hr = em.Next(monikers.Length, monikers, ptr);
>  x = Marshal.ReadInt32(p);

Where does the p variable come from?

>  // Use x below
>  ...
>  ...
>  Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(p);

If you free the memory that p points to, and then try to access it in
the next iteration of the loop, that memory area may have been allocated
to another process. That would definitely cause an access violation.

> }
>
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Thanks!
> DH

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