Re: Spontaneous application exit

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:18:09 -0700
Message-ID:
<C4E08ECA-079E-49B9-B77A-D73834BAC48D@microsoft.com>
You may have tried this, but did you put some tracing information into
functions like ExitInstance() and perhaps the OnClose() function in the main
dialog. Does it also do this with a debug version. In that case you may
catch an ASSERT that you are just not seeing with the release version.
Also, does it really exit or is remnant still showing on the task manager?

Tom

"iainjt" <iainjt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44EAEAF2-D11F-449C-B202-6D566C3B7B1A@microsoft.com...

We have an MFC dialog based application that has up to 100 threads reading
data from different sources over TCP/IP and then storing the data into an
oracle database. Database updates are realtively infrequent (maybe once or
twice a scond overall). We are having problems with the application just
exiting. Sometimes it will run for days, sometimes for just a few hours.

The user is definitely not exiting the application.

We have try/catch sections around most code and around each thread which
isn't getting triggered and we detect memory allocation failures (which
aren't happening).

Does anyone have any ideas on how we can trace what's causing the
application to exit?

Thanks

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