• Trevor Parscal (18/18) May 30 2005 In D, I seem to come accross Access Violations, ALL THE TIME...
• clayasaurus (18/43) May 30 2005 Is an access violation the same thing as a segmentation fault?

Trevor Parscal <Trevor_member pathlink.com> writes:

In D, I seem to come accross Access Violations, ALL THE TIME...

I never got these so much in C and C++.. I wish I knew what i was always doing
wrong, and I try to learn from my mistakes, but it still seems odd to me.

are there some common pitfals many of you fall into in developing in D that
cause these nasty little errors? Are there more advanced ways to detect the
source and more creative ways to avoid them than process of elimination on the
back end?

I am writing this windows GUI wrapper of sorts, Terra, and it's giving me allot
of issues. Are there things I should know about extern(Windows) that I might not
be taking into account..?

The source will be up on http://svn.dsource.org/projects/terra/downloads/

I appaicate all help, and if you are interested, send me a patch to
trevorparscal hotmail.com

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Trevor Parscal
www.trevorparscal.com
trevorparscal hotmail.com

clayasaurus <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:

Is an access violation the same thing as a segmentation fault?

Anyway, I used to get a lot of seg faults from forgetting to 'new' a 
class. To stop this from happening, I use asserts and contracts as 
follows...

void function(MyClass s)
in
{
   assert(s !== null);
}
body
{
    // ... etc
}

Also, I use the debuggers backtrace to tell me around the place where my 
program crashes, and I also use a dose of writef's in debug mode that 
give me an idea where/what the program is doing. If you are using build, 
maybe try adding the -full option.

Trevor Parscal wrote:
 In D, I seem to come accross Access Violations, ALL THE TIME...
 
 I never got these so much in C and C++.. I wish I knew what i was always doing
 wrong, and I try to learn from my mistakes, but it still seems odd to me.
 
 are there some common pitfals many of you fall into in developing in D that
 cause these nasty little errors? Are there more advanced ways to detect the
 source and more creative ways to avoid them than process of elimination on the
 back end?
 
 I am writing this windows GUI wrapper of sorts, Terra, and it's giving me allot
 of issues. Are there things I should know about extern(Windows) that I might
not
 be taking into account..?
 
 The source will be up on http://svn.dsource.org/projects/terra/downloads/
 
 I appaicate all help, and if you are interested, send me a patch to
 trevorparscal hotmail.com
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
 Thanks,
 Trevor Parscal
 www.trevorparscal.com
 trevorparscal hotmail.com