id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4027	ObjCreateInterface crashes when 3rd param is absent or Default (yet works with the empty string '')	anonymous		"in all versions from 3.3.15.1 up. in earier version incl. 3.3.15.0, it sets @error to 1(in 3.3.15.0) or 2048(in 3.3.14.*)

It's nary an inconvenience, but still a bug is a bug. 

The fix should be trivial, it's only has to check if the 3rd param is not_given/Default/Null, and threat such cases the same as it treats the empty string, which works as *intuitively* would be expected (yet the documentation tells us to use Default if we want to use only the IUnknown's standard methods(QueryInterface,AddRef,Release), yet in fact it's the empty string that does it, which is sensible but the documentation should be updated after the fix to say so explicitly.)

discovered it while tinkering with GUIRichEdit.au3's {{{__RichCom_Object_GetNewStorage}}}.

here's the updated version -- it's simply a bit clearer:
{{{#!autoit
Func __RichCom_Object_GetNewStorage($pObject, $pPstg)
	#forceref $pObject
	Local $aRet = DllCall($__g_hLib_RichCom_OLE32, ""dword"", ""CreateILockBytesOnHGlobal"", ""hwnd"", 0, ""bool"", True, ""ptr*"", 0)
	If NOT $aRet[0] Then
		Local $pLockBytes = $aRet[3]
		$aRet = DllCall($__g_hLib_RichCom_OLE32, ""dword"", ""StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes"", ""ptr"", $pLockBytes, ""dword"", BitOR(0x10, 2, 0x1000), ""dword"", 0, ""ptr*"", 0)
		; --- BitOR(STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE(=0x10), STGM_READWRITE(=2), STGM_CREATE(=0x1000))
		DllStructSetData(DllStructCreate(""ptr"", $pPstg), 1, $aRet[4])
		; if there's an error, call IUnknown.Release on $pLockBytes
		If $aRet[0] Then (ObjCreateInterface($pLockBytes,'{00000000-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}', '').Release()) ; will crash sans parentheses - ticket #4026
	EndIf
	Return $aRet[0] ;error code
EndFunc   ;==>__RichCom_Object_GetNewStorage
}}}"	Feature Request	new		AutoIt		None