Making sense of Access Violation

[Tydr Schnubbis]

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> 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?

Nevermind, I can just open them manually.  Seems that to set 
breakpoints, I have to use the mangled symbols, but at least it works. :)