Re: Forgot to initialize XPCOM but it still works

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
[email protected]

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
>