Re: How to get crash dump when a unhandled CException is thrown by a MFC app

From:
"Martin B." <0xCDCDCDCD@gmx.at>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:19:09 +0100
Message-ID:
<hiffhc$tgd$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Peter Schneider wrote:

On 11 Jan., 14:42, "Martin B." <0xCDCDC...@gmx.at> wrote:

Check the docs for:
virtual LRESULT ProcessWndProcException(CException* e, const MSG* pMsg);

If you add a THROW_LAST() in you own, you should be able to produce a
crash. (Except I think for the Modal Dialog Loop which contains an
additional CATCH that is not handled via ProcessWndProcException


Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. (Unfortunately, our
app currently uses a modal dialog ...)

Where did you find the documenation on this?
I used the following MSDN link and it doesn't seem to contain anything
on it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/93k07whb.aspx

Peter


I can't remember exactly.
Probably it was "just" debugging through the MFC sourcecode (maybe
assisted by some google'd stuff).

Check out:
Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\src\mfc\dlgcore.cpp
and search for CATCH_ALL for the DoModal problem

Regarding the ProcessWndProc, here's how we do it:

class CMyApp : public CMyWinExcApp ...

// Common base app class:
class CMyWinExcApp : public CWinApp {
public:
DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CMyWinExcApp)
protected:
virtual LRESULT ProcessWndProcException(CException* e, const MSG* pMsg);
};

IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMyWinExcApp, CWinApp)

LRESULT CMyWinExcApp::ProcessWndProcException(CException* e, const MSG*
pMsg)
{
ASSERT(!"Unhandled CException caught!");
TCHAR buf[1024] = {0};
CString className;
if(e) {
e->GetErrorMessage(buf, 1024);
CRuntimeClass* pClass = e->GetRuntimeClass();
if(pClass && pClass->m_lpszClassName)
className = pClass->m_lpszClassName;
}
CString msg;
msg.Format(_T("Unhandled MFC Exception - %s: %s"), className, buf);
// ... Log or display msg ...
THROW_LAST();
}

br,
Martin

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