Making sense of Access Violation

[Tydr Schnubbis]

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>> I'm making a multithreaded gui app which gives me an Access Violation 
>> exception.  I'm not sure how to figure out where it originates from.  If 
>> I use the msvc 6 debugger, I get a crash address.  But msvc doesn't show 
>> me where in the code that address is, so I'm still stuck.
>> 
>> Is there a tool like gnu's addr2line that will give me a file and line 
>> number?  I couldn't make addr2line work with the exe that dmd creates.
> 
> Ok, I'm now trying to use WinDbg.  I read somewhere to set a breakpoint 
> on _main, but how?  First I use the "Open Executable..." command, and 
> that works.  I've also set it to download symbols automatically.  So 
> far, so good.  Then, if type "bp _main" it says "Bp expression '_main' 
> could not be resolved, adding deferred bp", for "bm _main" it says "No 
> matching code symbols found, no breakpoints set."
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
Just "bp main" works!  I've managed to to get windbg to open the source 
code file a couple of times when fooling around with it, but I can't 
remember how I did it.  Does anyone know?