Re: Forgot to initialize XPCOM but it still works

[Doug Turner]

There are some code paths which still implictly initialize xpcom. They will be going away at some point. do no rely on them.

doug turner
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Evan wrote:

I wrote a small app that used XPCOM. I had forgot to call NS_InitXPCOM2() and NS_ShutdownXPCOM(), but the application still worked. It registered the components and I was able to access them. I had thought this was not possible. What makes it still work? I'm very curious about this.

Evan