Re: CoInitialize/CoUninitialize
* George:
Hello everyone,
I want to develop an automatic tool or manually using existing tool (e.g.
WinDbg) to watch when CoInitialize/CoUninitialize is called. I suspect
CoUninitialize is not called the same times as CoInitialize, and I want to
get the call stack.
No you don't.
You don't want to call CoInitialize/CoUninitialize locally anywhere, because
that doesn't work with e.g. Internet Explorer machinery.
And if you do, you want to simply check the return values.
Any ideas or reference documents about how to do this?
Don't.
(I do not have the full source codes, but I have symbol files. My current
ideas is either to add to system level COM Runtime hook to monitor when the
two functions are called and get stack trace if possible, or using WinDbg to
monitor the two specific function calls -- but I do not know the command in
WinDbg. :-) )
Since it isn't your own source code there's not much you can do about it if you
do find a mismatch in number of calls, is there?
What you should do is to make sure that your driver code calls CoInitialize and
CoUninitialize, at top level.
Don't rely on any local calls.
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
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