I am running into an ICE on windows - Assertion Failure on such-and-such line in mtype.c - and I am trying to get a test command for to reduce it with the redoubtable dustmite.

Normally, 'abnormal program termination' is printed to the console; however if I try to redirect stderr for greppage purposes, windows presents me with a message box with the same message.

Any ideas how to disable this abomination?

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:10:05 +0100, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:

> I am running into an ICE on windows - Assertion Failure on such-and-such line in mtype.c - and I am trying to get a test command for to reduce it with the redoubtable dustmite.
>
> Normally, 'abnormal program termination' is printed to the console; however if I try to redirect stderr for greppage purposes, windows presents me with a message box with the same message.
>
> Any ideas how to disable this abomination?

Can you show us an example of how you're redirecting stderr..

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On 08/28/2012 06:37 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:10:05 +0100, Ellery Newcomer
> <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am running into an ICE on windows - Assertion Failure on
>> such-and-such line in mtype.c - and I am trying to get a test command
>> for to reduce it with the redoubtable dustmite.
>>
>> Normally, 'abnormal program termination' is printed to the console;
>> however if I try to redirect stderr for greppage purposes, windows
>> presents me with a message box with the same message.
>>
>> Any ideas how to disable this abomination?
>
> Can you show us an example of how you're redirecting stderr..
>
> R
>

dmd stuff 2>&1

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:59:34 +0100, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:

> On 08/28/2012 06:37 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:10:05 +0100, Ellery Newcomer
>> <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I am running into an ICE on windows - Assertion Failure on
>>> such-and-such line in mtype.c - and I am trying to get a test command
>>> for to reduce it with the redoubtable dustmite.
>>>
>>> Normally, 'abnormal program termination' is printed to the console;
>>> however if I try to redirect stderr for greppage purposes, windows
>>> presents me with a message box with the same message.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to disable this abomination?
>>
>> Can you show us an example of how you're redirecting stderr..
>>
>> R
>>
>
> dmd stuff 2>&1

I searched the DMD sources, just in case the message "abnormal program termination" was DMD specific, and I found nothing.  Then I searched all files and the string appears in the dmd.exe binary, making me suspect the compiler used to produce dmd.exe put it there, so perhaps there is a dmc option to disable it.

If that's not it..

What Windows are you on?  Do you have visual studio or another JIT debugger installed?

I am on Windows 7 x64 and I have been playing with a test.exe (built in VS in debug mode).

I can't get my version of windows to output "abnormal program termination" no matter what I tried to make my application do assert, throw exception, divide by zero, illegal pointer/memory write, etc.

If I do an assert(0) I see:

...>test
Assertion failed: 0, file ...\test.cpp, line 27

plus a popup window saying:

"Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library"
"Debug Error!
 Program:
 ...

 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
 Please contact the application's support team for more information.

 (Press Retry to debug the application)"

I suspect the popup is a hook into the JIT debugger I have installed (visual studio).  By default some versions of windows use DrWatson (drwtsn32.exe), later versions use something else.

Google found me this tho, might be helpful:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2011/02/18/how-to-disable-the-pop-up-that-windows-shows-when-an-app-crashes.aspx

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On 08/28/2012 09:55 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
> I searched the DMD sources, just in case the message "abnormal
> program termination" was DMD specific, and I found nothing.  Then I
> searched all files and the string appears in the dmd.exe binary,
> making me suspect the compiler used to produce dmd.exe put it there,
> so perhaps there is a dmc option to disable it.

maybe so

>
> What Windows are you on?  Do you have visual studio or another JIT
> debugger installed?

Windows 7 x32 with visual studio 11 beta
>
> I am on Windows 7 x64 and I have been playing with a test.exe (built in
> VS in debug mode).
>
> I can't get my version of windows to output "abnormal program
> termination" no matter what I tried to make my application do assert,
> throw exception, divide by zero, illegal pointer/memory write, etc.

If you like, you could try building the unreduced case

download pyd

https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/pyd

from top dir, run (python setup.py install)
go to examples/wrap, run (python setup.py build)

> Google found me this tho, might be helpful:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2011/02/18/how-to-disable-the-pop-up-that-windows-shows-when-an-app-crashes.aspx
>

didn't help

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:03:47 +0100, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:
> If you like, you could try building the unreduced case
>
> download pyd
>
> https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/pyd
>
> from top dir, run (python setup.py install)
> go to examples/wrap, run (python setup.py build)

Ok.  I downloaded and installed python.  Then pyd.

I run "python setup.py build" in examples\wrap and see the ICE.

I run "python setup.py build 1>a.txt 2>&1" and get a popup box :)

So, we're on the same page at least..

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:47:57 +0100, Regan Heath <regan@netmail.co.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:03:47 +0100, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:
>> If you like, you could try building the unreduced case
>>
>> download pyd
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/pyd
>>
>> from top dir, run (python setup.py install)
>> go to examples/wrap, run (python setup.py build)
>
> Ok.  I downloaded and installed python.  Then pyd.
>
> I run "python setup.py build" in examples\wrap and see the ICE.
>
> I run "python setup.py build 1>a.txt 2>&1" and get a popup box :)
>
> So, we're on the same page at least..

How do I get/see the full dmd.exe command line being executed?

(I have never used python.. so go slow)

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On 08/28/2012 01:03 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 09:55 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
>  > I searched the DMD sources, just in case the message "abnormal
>  > program termination" was DMD specific, and I found nothing.  Then I
>  > searched all files and the string appears in the dmd.exe binary,
>  > making me suspect the compiler used to produce dmd.exe put it there,
>  > so perhaps there is a dmc option to disable it.
>
> maybe so
>

found it.


void dmd_51d770(char* msg, char* title) {
    HANDLE handle;
    DWORD nchars;
    handle = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
    if(handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE ||
       WriteConsoleA(handle, msg, strlen(msg), &nchars, 0) == 0) {
        MessageBoxA(NULL, msg, title, MB_OK|MB_ICONHAND|MB_TASKMODAL);
    }
}


good old olly.

Sorry to waste your time.

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:43:27 +0100, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer@utulsa.edu> wrote:

> On 08/28/2012 01:03 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 08/28/2012 09:55 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
>>  > I searched the DMD sources, just in case the message "abnormal
>>  > program termination" was DMD specific, and I found nothing.  Then I
>>  > searched all files and the string appears in the dmd.exe binary,
>>  > making me suspect the compiler used to produce dmd.exe put it there,
>>  > so perhaps there is a dmc option to disable it.
>>
>> maybe so
>>
>
> found it.

Where did you find that.. I still can't find the blasted thing :p

> void dmd_51d770(char* msg, char* title) {
>      HANDLE handle;
>      DWORD nchars;
>      handle = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
>      if(handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE ||
>         WriteConsoleA(handle, msg, strlen(msg), &nchars, 0) == 0) {
>          MessageBoxA(NULL, msg, title, MB_OK|MB_ICONHAND|MB_TASKMODAL);
>      }
> }
>
>
> good old olly.
>
> Sorry to waste your time.

NP.

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On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 13:39:30 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
>
> Where did you find that.. I still can't find the blasted thing :p
>
>> void dmd_51d770(char* msg, char* title) {

at address 0x51d770 in the _TEXT section (in a slightly less disassembled form)

apparently I'm not the first person to meet this textbox:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki/Suppressing-DMD-crashes