RE: vs 8 bug ?

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=?Utf-8?B?Z29yZG9u?= <gordon@discussions.microsoft.com>
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microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:23:03 -0700
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yes, ulrich, i did try the _cdecl in the container dll ... both in the header
protoype and c file , of course ... this made no difference, which did not
suprise me since all projects are configured for _cdecl linkage ... good
suggestion , though ...

i agree that I need to put together a minimal example which demonstrates the
issue so that it can be ( or not ... ) duplicated on other machines ...

thank you much for your interest and suggestions ...

btw, cholo's pragma didn't make any difference either ... this did not
suprise me, since all projects concerned have been configured for all
optimizations off ( /Od ) ...
--
gordon

"Ulrich Eckhardt" wrote:

gordon wrote:
[...]

3) A quick review of the additional code posted in response to Ben's
request indicates that upon return from the call to "pApuUpdateHWclock"
the stack pointer is indeed restored to its pre-call value ... but, then
on the next call to function "_pApuFubar" the stack is not restored to its
pre-call value ...

4) Now, "_pApuFubar" is simply an alias for the same call to
"pApuUpdateHWclock" ... another name declared which executes the same call
...

5) the only difference between these two calls is the "_asm nop" present
after the first call to "pApuUpdateHWclock" ...


I'm not convinced yet. Have you considered what Alexander Grigoriev said?
Your code looked like this:

| __declspec( dllexport ) void APU_UpdateHWclock(double);
|
| // declared in the calling module
| typedef void (__cdecl *APU_UPDATE_HWCLOCK_FUNC)(double dT);
| APU_UPDATE_HWCLOCK_FUNC pApuUpdateHWclock ;

In one case, the __cdecl is present while in the declaration of
APU_UpdateHWclock() it isn't. Fix this first. If it doesn't help, create a
minimal example so we can try to reproduce it on our machines.

BTW: you can create function typedefs:

  namespace apu {
    typedef void __cdecl update_hwclock_function(double);
  }

which have the same syntax as a declaration but prefixed with 'typedef' and
then create function pointers that look like pointers:

  apu::update_hwclock_function* uhc = &APU_UpdateHWclock;

This doesn't change the technical side of this issue, but it makes things a
bit more readable. Just wanted to mention it.

6) finally, this is a very straight forward sequence of function calls,
nothing "tricky" going on at all ...


If you f*** up a function pointer cast you are in trouble. Getting it right
without any compiler-enforceable guide IMHO qualifies as "tricky".

Uli

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