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... RAM would diminish accordingly, forcing more swap file activity (using the hard drive as a substitute for RAM). This is the famous “memory leak” of Win95. The user’s solution in Win95 was to put MinFileCache and MaxFileCache lines in the [vcache] section of the SYSTEM.INI file to control ...

It's hard to say. The wrong handle is passed to SelectObject() API. At least the brush is just not activated. At worst we have a resource leak or similar unpleasant effects.

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Hi. I'm trying to debug a serious memory leak in a fwh app in which brushes and fonts (mainly... ocasional bitmaps, cursors and other gdi objects are also stuck) aren't released when they should. I have already used CheckRes() but it doesn't ...

... ); hb_vmPush( hb_stackSelfItem() ); hb_vmSend( 0 ); if( s_nOleError == DISP_E_EXCEPTION ) { // Intentional to avoid report of memory leak if fatal error. char *sTemp = WideToAnsi( excep.bstrDescription ); sDescription = (char *) malloc( strlen( sTemp ) + 1 ); strcpy( sDescription, ...