Re: Adding member variables crashes app
"Charles R" wrote:
CIDriver, CDriver and CMyDriver all have virtual
destructors.
__declspec(dllexport) CIDriver* InitDriver(CIKernel*
i_hKernel)
{
//__asm { int 0x03 }
CMyDriver* hUserDriver = new CUserDriver;
hUserDriver->Create(i_hKernel);
return (CIDriver *)hUserDriver;
}
__declspec(dllexport) void EndDriver(CIDriver* i_hIDriver)
{
CMyDriver * hUserDriver = (CMyDriver *)i_hIDriver;
hUserDriver->Destroy();
delete hUserDriver;
}
My app crashes at the 'delete hUserDriver'. EndDriver is
an exposed
interface call that another DLL calls to detroy the
driver.
hUserDriver->Destroy() destroy all internal structures of
CDriver (not
CMyDriver, as this function isnt overloaded in CMyDriver).
CMyDriver is not
referencing any objects destroyed by the Destroy call.
Nothing is available
in the debugger as its all assembly at that point.
In the class definition for CMyDriver, if I add public
member variables, it
crashes on the delete. If I make them global (file scope),
it doesnt crash.
I"m wondering if its looking at the class size or
something. I'm just
confused.
I'd add the code snippet, but I'm not doing anything
special that would look
weird.
The code looks OK. However, two minor points:
1. Check that i_hIDriver input parameter is pointer to valid
instance. Also, for correctness' sake you can replace
"(CMyDriver *)i_hIDriver" with
"dynamic_cast<CMyDriver*>(i_hIDriver)". So, if i_hIDriver is
junk, then you'll get immediate indication.
2. Check that call to Destroy() doesn't corrupt memory
around an instance. As a quick and dirty test you could
comment out the call to Destroy() and just delete the
object. If it stops to crash, then obviously Destroy is to
blame.
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