I'm making a multithreaded gui app which gives me an Access Violation exception.  I'm not sure how to figure out where it originates from.  If I use the msvc 6 debugger, I get a crash address.  But msvc doesn't show me where in the code that address is, so I'm still stuck.

Is there a tool like gnu's addr2line that will give me a file and line number?  I couldn't make addr2line work with the exe that dmd creates.

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> I'm making a multithreaded gui app which gives me an Access Violation exception.  I'm not sure how to figure out where it originates from.  If I use the msvc 6 debugger, I get a crash address.  But msvc doesn't show me where in the code that address is, so I'm still stuck.
> 
> Is there a tool like gnu's addr2line that will give me a file and line number?  I couldn't make addr2line work with the exe that dmd creates.

Ok, I'm now trying to use WinDbg.  I read somewhere to set a breakpoint on _main, but how?  First I use the "Open Executable..." command, and that works.  I've also set it to download symbols automatically.  So far, so good.  Then, if type "bp _main" it says "Bp expression '_main' could not be resolved, adding deferred bp", for "bm _main" it says "No matching code symbols found, no breakpoints set."

What am I doing wrong?

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>> I'm making a multithreaded gui app which gives me an Access Violation exception.  I'm not sure how to figure out where it originates from.  If I use the msvc 6 debugger, I get a crash address.  But msvc doesn't show me where in the code that address is, so I'm still stuck.
>> 
>> Is there a tool like gnu's addr2line that will give me a file and line number?  I couldn't make addr2line work with the exe that dmd creates.
> 
> Ok, I'm now trying to use WinDbg.  I read somewhere to set a breakpoint on _main, but how?  First I use the "Open Executable..." command, and that works.  I've also set it to download symbols automatically.  So far, so good.  Then, if type "bp _main" it says "Bp expression '_main' could not be resolved, adding deferred bp", for "bm _main" it says "No matching code symbols found, no breakpoints set."
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
Just "bp main" works!  I've managed to to get windbg to open the source code file a couple of times when fooling around with it, but I can't remember how I did it.  Does anyone know?

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>>> I'm making a multithreaded gui app which gives me an Access Violation exception.  I'm not sure how to figure out where it originates from.  If I use the msvc 6 debugger, I get a crash address.  But msvc doesn't show me where in the code that address is, so I'm still stuck.
>>> 
>>> Is there a tool like gnu's addr2line that will give me a file and line number?  I couldn't make addr2line work with the exe that dmd creates.
>> 
>> Ok, I'm now trying to use WinDbg.  I read somewhere to set a breakpoint on _main, but how?  First I use the "Open Executable..." command, and that works.  I've also set it to download symbols automatically.  So far, so good.  Then, if type "bp _main" it says "Bp expression '_main' could not be resolved, adding deferred bp", for "bm _main" it says "No matching code symbols found, no breakpoints set."
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
> Just "bp main" works!  I've managed to to get windbg to open the source code file a couple of times when fooling around with it, but I can't remember how I did it.  Does anyone know?

Nevermind, I can just open them manually.  Seems that to set breakpoints, I have to use the mangled symbols, but at least it works. :)