[PATCH 01/12] d3d10: Fix a HeapFree() in d3d10_effect_Release().

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

On 10/28/2009 06:32 AM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
>
> Am 27.10.2009 um 20:10 schrieb Rico Schüller:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this patch series implements a couple of ID3D10EffectVariable::As*() 
>> functions (patches 2-11).
> Do we have any tests for the As* behavior?
>
> Most conversions don't make any sense, so if the app wants a constant 
> buffer as a render target view returning a null obj  is probably a 
> sane thing. But ::AsString potentially makes sense for all objects, 
> maybe in a similar way Object::ToString is used to obtain a String for 
> debug output in Java.
>
This is a rather odd looking API - it actually looks a lot more like C# 
"as" operator than Java.ToString().
That's basically a safe cast, which returns NULL if the object is not of 
the type you're trying to cast.

...except that in C# it's a language operator that works on any pointer 
type.

Ivan