• Don Clugston (10/10) Jan 11 2008 I have a multi-threaded Windows app. Occasionally, it crashes silently: ...
• Bradley Smith (5/17) Jan 11 2008 I've seen silent crashes in Windows that were stack overflow errors

Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> writes:

I have a multi-threaded Windows app. Occasionally, it crashes silently: the GUI 
abruptly disappears, no "blue screen of death" or equivalent. Some of the
worker 
threads (created in DLLs) continue to run, and the DLLs remain loaded.
This is not a D issue in this case (it's a C++ app), yet I've seen this 
behaviour in D in the past.
I know that uncaught Windows Structured Exceptions can cause this type of
crash; 
calling exit(1) does the same thing.
Is there anything else which can do this?

I've been fighting this bug for days; I've never had so much trouble with a bug 
before. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Bradley Smith <digitalmars-com baysmith.com> writes:

Don Clugston wrote:
 I have a multi-threaded Windows app. Occasionally, it crashes silently: 
 the GUI abruptly disappears, no "blue screen of death" or equivalent. 
 Some of the worker threads (created in DLLs) continue to run, and the 
 DLLs remain loaded.
 This is not a D issue in this case (it's a C++ app), yet I've seen this 
 behaviour in D in the past.
 I know that uncaught Windows Structured Exceptions can cause this type 
 of crash; calling exit(1) does the same thing.
 Is there anything else which can do this?
 
 I've been fighting this bug for days; I've never had so much trouble 
 with a bug before. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.


I've seen silent crashes in Windows that were stack overflow errors 
caused by infinite looping of a series of function calls. However, it 
was not a multi-threaded app, and it was easy to see the problem when 
run through the debugger.