Re: Throwing from DLL causes heap corruption

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:30 -0600
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"Kenneth Porter" <shiva.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A22913E59BA7shivawellcom@207.46.248.16...

I have a DLL linked to my own app that works fine when throwing from DLL to
application. But with a customer application I get a heap corruption
exception when the thrown exception goes out of scope in the catch clause.
I've copied the stack below. To the best of my knowledge, both app and DLL
are linked against the VC6 multi-threaded debug DLL runtime. Any idea
what's going wrong here?


C++ exceptions should not be thrown across module boundaries. You should
instead catch the exception at the entry point to the DLL (not application
entry point, but each exported DLL function) and indicate the error in a
portable way. Your options are:

(1) error/status code
(2) COM exception (which really is a status code)
(3) structured exception (not recommended for user-mode applications)

_CrtIsValidHeapPointer(const void * 0x09b56480) line 1697
_free_dbg_lk(void * 0x09b56480, int -572662307) line 1044 + 9 bytes
_free_dbg(void * 0x09b56480, int -572662307) line 1001 + 13 bytes
operator delete(void * 0x09b56480) line 49 + 16 bytes
MSVCRTD! exception::~exception(void) + 45 bytes
AxisSafetyException::~AxisSafetyException() + 208 bytes
MSVCRTD! DestructExceptionObject(struct EHExceptionRecord *,unsigned char)
+ 85 bytes
MSVCRTD! __FrameUnwindToState + 807 bytes
MSVCRTD! __FrameUnwindToState + 458 bytes
MSVCRTD! __InternalCxxFrameHandler + 800 bytes
MSVCRTD! __InternalCxxFrameHandler + 227 bytes
MSVCRTD! __CxxFrameHandler + 44 bytes
NTDLL! 7c9037bf()
NTDLL! 7c90378b()
NTDLL! 7c90eafa()
MSVCRTD! _CxxThrowException@8 + 57 bytes


It looks like your DLL and the application are using different memory
managers.

Out of curiosity, is the customer's catch block using catch-by-value or
catch-by-reference?

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