winsamp sample crashed windbg

[ws]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> ws wrote:
> > Here is what i did:
> > 
> > c:\>windbg winsamp.exe Press F5 to start running, then just close the
> > winsamp.exe.
> > 
> > Couple of secs later windbg crashed with 'The instruction at
> > 0x731444fe referenced memory at 0x00000000...' while it is unloading
> > the system modules.
> > 
> > winsamp.exe is built from the win32 sample verbatim, and windbg.exe
> > is provided by dmd compiler package.
> > 
> > I am using win XP and both dmd 2.019 or dmd 1.034, so guess it is not
> > dmd version specific. Am I the the only one seeing this?
> 
> When MS updated XP, they broke windbg maybe a year ago. The same windbg 
> now always fails on exit. Fortunately, it doesn't fail before you debug 
> your program, just on exit.
> 
> I don't think there's anything I can do about this.


Ah, finally I found the culprit!
It is the unlocker.exe running in the background, and that crashes windbg running D windows app consistently when it exits. (does not affect the console app).
Took me a long time to find out.
Thanks for your concerns!