DMD 2.055 Crashing on Windows 7 x64 (So is my D program)

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:52:02 -0400, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/26/2011 2:36 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Hm... its hard for me to say.  Why would it be calling _close before  
>> main() is called?  Very strange.  Is there any more stack information?
>>
>> Can you get it to crash by using a pipe from the command line?
>>
>> In other words:
>>
>> myprogram | more
>>
>> or echo hi | miprogram
>>
>> ?
>>
>> If this isn't killing the program in the same way, then it might be a  
>> different issue than the one I fixed.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Nope, pipes/redirections from the command prompt are all fine -- it just  
> crashes when run from SciTE (and also Notepad++, which I just verified).
>
> After somewhat painful debugging, it seems like the stack trace is a  
> little off -- it actually happens when _exit() is called, which in turn  
> calls _fcloseall() or something.
>
> Not sure what else I can do about it, though -- it's pretty clear the  
> handle was destroyed sometime before, but I don't know when.

This is likely a DMC issue, and is probably best reported as a DMC bug.  I  
don't know how much more you want to pursue this, but the next steps I'd  
recommend are:

1. obtain the dmc compiler (it's free) if you haven't already.
2. Compile an empty C program and run it using SciTE and Notepad++.   
Verify the same error occurs
3. report the failure using DMC's bugzilla.

I'm guessing there's something in the way SciTE or Notepad++ sets up the  
pipes before executing the process which causes the problem.  I have a  
sinking feeling we'll see more of this issue when the new std.process is  
released :(

-Steve