Question

One of the instance variables in my class is an object of another ref class. As far as I can tell, this works fine but I’m afraid that without explicitly calling ref new Foo(...), reference counting won’t be initialized properly. Am I right to be concerned, or am I in the clear?

Example Code

 ref class Foo {
     public:
         Foo();
         virtual ~Foo();
 }

 ref class Bar {
     public:
         Bar();
         virtual ~Bar();

         Foo _myNewFoo;
 }

Does _myNewFoo cause a leak? Or is this fine?

Answer 1

Hans Passant commented on the initial question with a suitable answer:

It is C++/CX. No problems with this code, the ref count for _myNewFoo
will be properly initialized.