> That's exactly what I ended up doing. I guess I was just a little too
> green to do it right the first time. I didn't know how to pass a SAFEARRAY
> correctly, so I thought I'd hide the problem and put it in a VARIANT :-)
>
> Strangely, this actually worked for my C++ clients.
Best I can tell, there is no reason it's not legal - it's just unusual :)
You could argue that we should just recurse away on VT_VARIANT until we find
a real type. I was kinda hoping you had a legitimate case it was failing
with, as then it would have been clearer it was a bug :) Particularly, the
top of that function has:
/* skip past any variant references to a "real" variant
(Why do we do this? Why is it only a VARIANT? whats the story,
morning glory?
*/
while ( V_VT(var) == (VT_BYREF | VT_VARIANT) )
var = V_VARIANTREF(var);
but the code fails to gracefully handle the non-byref variant case, as you
found. Oh well, some other day (or if someone is keen, a bug couldn't
hurt...)
Cheers,
Mark
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