[PATCH 3/6] ole32, propsys: Rework PROPVARIANT (de)serialization
Vincent Povirk
madewokherd at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 13:23:12 CDT 2015
> * The only interface to property (de)serialization provided by
> ole32.dll, the StgConvertVariantToProperty()/
> StgConvertPropertyToVariant() functions, are poorly documented,
> hard to implement (HRESULTs need to be converted to NTSTATUS
> exceptions) and even more unpleasant to use (because one would
> need to catch the NTSTATUS exception and convert it back to a
> HRESULT). This is rather crazy and cumbersome.
I remember being concerned that StgConvertPropertyToVariant does not
accept a size for the serialized value. This is not good when we don't
trust the data we're reading.
So, at least for deserialization I don't think we should use the public API.
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