Stepping into the code posted, the cch was 165 (and in other experiments when I increased the initialized size that I was requesting for the buffer, up to 195) , in all cases it was much less than >= MAXDWORD / sizeof(WCHAR), yet stepping through the code in a debugger, it steps into the code posted which returns the 'Not enough memory to allocate string of size: 165' message, and does not make any sense. The pointer that is passed into ppwz was initialized to NULL prior to calling StrAllocSecure().
I can see that when other StrXxx functions like StrAllocConcatSecure, also call this code block they iterate through allocating a larger buffer. But I do not understand why a (very small value >= a very large value) results in true, which causes StrAllocSecure to simply return without allocating the buffer. Thanks for your comments, I will research it more. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/StrAllocSecure-fails-in-AlocHelper-advice-in-understanding-why-tp7600708p7600714.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
