• d-bugmail puremagic.com Jan 20 2010
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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3732

           Summary: Not all COM interfaces inherit from IUnknown.
           Product: D
           Version: 2.037
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: burton-radons shaw.ca


--- Comment #0 from Burton Radons <burton-radons shaw.ca> 2010-01-20 19:59:05
PST ---
Well this is rude. It turns out some COM interfaces - I specifically know of
ID3D10Include
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee419311%28VS.85%29.aspx) - do not
inherit from IUnknown. Since inheritance from IUnknown is how DMD applies its
magic, it means that such interfaces cannot be implemented directly from D.

It would seem preferable to have a "pragma (COM)" or "pragma (com)" attribute
to apply to an interface to cause it and its descendants to be understood to be
COM participants than to inherit from IUnknown, which seems an outdated
commonality, unfortunately.

The justification from Microsoft's side seems to be that ID3D10Include objects
should be lightweight, so removing IUnknown allows them to be stack objects
since it's impossible for anyone to retain a living reference to them after
returning.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Walter Bright <bugzilla digitalmars.com> 2010-01-21
15:42:45 PST ---
Does the interface not have aquire, release, and queryinterface methods?

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--- Comment #2 from Burton Radons <burton-radons shaw.ca> 2010-01-22 08:25:15
PST ---
Nope. I've since found that this is also common to most of the interfaces used
in the reflection API for DirectX 10 and 11, which you're not supposed to
implement. I think the intent is the same, just the opposite direction -
they're trying to serve objects whose lifetimes are completely dependent on the
root object.

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