Re: 64b Windows - crashes not detected
Phil,
Not a lot of people are aware of this, so I'm not surprised that it hasn't been raised yet. When you have the NULL pointer
reference that should trigger an access violation, is it perhaps in a message handler that has come from a SendMessage call?
In 64-bit Windows (both native 64-bit and WOW64 32-bit programs), a structured exception that would trigger an unwind to an
exception handler back into kernel mode will simply be "swallowed" by the OS. If you have a hook, for instance, that requires the
SendMessage worker to transition into kernel mode in order to call a message hook procedure, and then you cause an AV exception in
your handler, the exception will not be reported. In some cases, however, it will simply cause the app to be terminated. Other
times, it will just be swallowed. In neither case would it actually allow the NULL pointer reference to execute.
Scot
phil oakleaf wrote:
I have recently switched to a 64bit Windows platform - we're still
building a 32bit MFC Application.
I have found that some bugs in my code that would happily crash on 32bit
windows (Invalid pointers) do not crash on 64bit.
This makes it very hard to know if the code has been debugged
Is there anything I can do about this other than re-install 32bit Windows
Any ideas will be really appreciated
Phil
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