DDRAW: Fix reference counting

Jakov af Wallby jakov at vmlinux.org
Mon Sep 19 07:02:52 CDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:27:05AM +0200, Stefan D?singer wrote:
> Hi,
> > Why do you increase the refcount by 2? Since you add and release them in
> > the same functions, it is not really necessary and just adds complexity
> > to the code.
> Well, Windows does so for some reason, and after what I've seen with Empire 
> Earth, I suspect that there are some apps out there which depend on things 
> like this. It's unlikely, but I would not be surprised if that happens.

In that case, it would be really beneficial with a unit test.
Both as documentation and to see what Windows does.

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Jakob


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