Totally Mad Memory Leak

[Judd]

Anyone seen anything like this before:

VARIANT myFunc(void);


VARIANT vMyVarOK = myFunc();

_variant_t vMyVarLeaks = myFunc();

I have code where the second assignment leaks memory (you have to cycle it a lot of times, but the leak then beomes significant).

There is no reason I can see why this should be a problem, but its causing a big leak (10+ MB) in my XML writing code...