Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/21/12:03:03
At 11:48 AM 3/21/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:43:31AM +0100, Kandziora Jan wrote:
> >Mark wrote:
> >>mpeg2enc.exe works fine on the build machine (Win98SE with 64MB), but
> >>bombs out with a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error on another machine
> >>(Win2K with 256MB). This machine does not have the Cygwin environment
> >>installed, but I did (of course) copy the DLL across. I don't believe
> >>there is more than one copy of the DLL on the machine - I'll check
> >>later.
> >>
> >>I know mpeg2enc allocates a lot of memory, and also uses threads. Any
> >>hints as to what I should check next?
> >>
> >I've got the same problem with a self-engineered program here. For
> >what I know now, it only happens if no registry keys for Cygwin are
> >present or if I use the "Default Text file Type=DOS" in the setup. For
> >some reason, I have a "printf"-wrapper in my program. What do you
> >think the where the execption always occur? Right: That function. I
> >use Cygwin 1.3.9 now, but I had the problem with 1.3.2 and 1.3.4 also.
>
>Lets go back to first principals here. When you see a bug you suspect
>that there is a bug in the program. To debug a program you use gdb.
>
>It's really simple. No email to a mailing list required. No speculation
>that it could be a cygwin version. You run the program under the debugger
>and find out where the problem is.
But where's the sport in that? ;-)
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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