Silent crash in Windows -- what can cause it?
Bradley Smith
digitalmars-com at baysmith.com
Fri Jan 11 23:25:55 PST 2008
Don Clugston wrote:
> I have a multi-threaded Windows app. Occasionally, it crashes silently:
> the GUI abruptly disappears, no "blue screen of death" or equivalent.
> Some of the worker threads (created in DLLs) continue to run, and the
> DLLs remain loaded.
> This is not a D issue in this case (it's a C++ app), yet I've seen this
> behaviour in D in the past.
> I know that uncaught Windows Structured Exceptions can cause this type
> of crash; calling exit(1) does the same thing.
> Is there anything else which can do this?
>
> I've been fighting this bug for days; I've never had so much trouble
> with a bug before. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I've seen silent crashes in Windows that were stack overflow errors
caused by infinite looping of a series of function calls. However, it
was not a multi-threaded app, and it was easy to see the problem when
run through the debugger.
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