Re: atldbcli.h line 6200 (VC 7.1):

From: Kim Gräsman (kim_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:48:35 +0200

Egbert,

> > These things are always /interesting/... Can you verify that the
> > apartment that instantiated that object is still alive?
>
> There's a dutch proverb, 'you've hit the nail with the hammer' :)

I'm glad - though it's only because I've lived through that pain myself :)

> This bug happens, indeed, if the apartment is destroyed. If it's still
> alive, I'm not sure but guess for 90% that at FinalRelease, this bug
> happens.

The crash pretty much indicates that the interface pointer is no longer
valid. In the case of the 'disappearing apartment', it's because apartment
shutdown tears down all stubs, but I guess there can be other cases during
process shutdown where you'll have stray pointers.

> It happens at a global allocated ATL::CDataSource object within
> FinalRelease...

When that global's FinalRelease is called, it's almost guaranteed there are
no valid pointers left. Most threads will have done their CoUninitialize,
and finished up.
You need to provoke FinalRelease earlier in your shutdown process/process
shutdown. 

-- 
Best regards,
Kim Gräsman

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