Compiler crash I can't pin down

[Mehrdad]

On Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 01:38:56 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> I can't tell which part of my code is causing this (there's 
> quite
> a few files in my project and I can't really submit every file),
> but when I run DMD, it crashes in template.c with
> "Access violation reading location 0x00000004":
>
>
> TemplateInstance::TemplateInstance(Loc loc, TemplateDeclaration
> *td, Objects *tiargs)
>         : ScopeDsymbol(NULL)
> {
> #if LOG
>         printf("TemplateInstance(this = %p, tempdecl = '%s')\n",
> this, td->toChars());
> #endif
>         this->loc = loc;
>         this->name = td->ident;   // Crash here; apparently 
> 'td' is
> null?
>         ...
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what the bug might be? (Version 2.060 DEBUG)
>
> It's a bit of a wild goose chase to narrow down the problem,
> since I've tried commenting out several parts of my code 
> entirely
> (including the file mentioned in the "Loc" structure) but to no
> avail. I also tried using Process Monitor to figure out the last
> file DMD is opening, which happened to be std/utf.d, but
> commenting out the entire code for that still caused the crash,
> so idk...



Hmm... I "fixed" the error by updating my object_.d file (I'd 
modified it for a separate project) but I still don't know what 
was causing it..