Analyzing Tracepoint Output

posted by  techgeek (12)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Last week I had this displeasure of tracking down a fairly unpleasant reference counting bug. I wound up having to solve the problem by brute force:

1. Set a breakpoint in the constructor of leaking object


2. Set a data breakpoint on the object's reference count variable


3. Change the data breakpoint to a tracepoint that prints the callstack (see dialog)


4. Match up the callstacks.