[PATCH 2/5] activeds: Implement ADsOpenObject.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > > +                        hr =
> > IADsOpenDSObject_OpenDSObject(adsopen,
> > > > (BSTR)path, (BSTR)user, (BSTR)password, reserved, &disp);
> > > > > > +                        if (hr == S_OK)
> > > > > You cannot cast to a BSTR, it will corrupt the data structure.
> > > >
> > > > I depends wheather the callee uses SysStringLen() and friends, in this
> > > > particular case it works just fine, there are many other places in the
> > code
> > > > when it's not necessary to create intermediate copies of the strings.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It does not matter if it works in this case, arguments should use correct
> > > types. If we have similar violations somewhere else, those need fixing as
> > > well.
> >
> > That's a pretty incorrect assertion, there's nothing wrong in casting
> > BSTR to LPWSTR and vice versa.
> >
> 
> What's incorrect about it? You can use BSTR as WCHAR * argument, obviously.
> Not the other way around, even if it happens to work.

You are contradicting yourself: if it works that means that's correct
behaviour. If you are going to further argue, please show the code that
won't work for this particular implementation.

-- 
Dmitry.