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[Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Nicholas O. R. <exc...@mi...>]

Hey there!

I'm writing a string class as part of a school project.  Sometimes when I
compile the class in a test program and run it, I get an error message
saying "NSTRING.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You
will need to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  If I
re-compile with the exact same source code, the problem goes away and the
test program runs perfectly.  I'm using version 4.9.8.5 on Windows 2000.  I
have about 1300 lines of well-spaced code, but it seems unlikely to me that
this could be too much for mingw or for my computer to handle.  Any ideas?

Nicholas

Re: [Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

If you make changes to header files - changing declaration of structs for
example - you might get into problems, since Dev-C++ depending on
dependency settings sometimes doesn't recompile all affected source files.
The result then will most of the time be a spectacular failure of the
program. A complete rebuild later and everything is back to normal.

By the way, please enlighten me what 'well-spaced code' is, and how that
affects the hehaviour of the program.

/Per W

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Nicholas O. Rawlings wrote:

> Hey there!
>
> I'm writing a string class as part of a school project.  Sometimes when I
> compile the class in a test program and run it, I get an error message
> saying "NSTRING.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You
> will need to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  If I
> re-compile with the exact same source code, the problem goes away and the
> test program runs perfectly.  I'm using version 4.9.8.5 on Windows 2000.  I
> have about 1300 lines of well-spaced code, but it seems unlikely to me that
> this could be too much for mingw or for my computer to handle.  Any ideas?
>
> Nicholas
>
>
>
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Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Watson D. <wa...@wa...>]

Thursday, January 29, 2004, 1:45:50 AM, you wrote:
PW> By the way, please enlighten me what 'well-spaced code' is, and how that
PW> affects the hehaviour of the program.

"Well-spaced code" or "Agoracode" is code that has lots of room on the disk.
And has its own little pharmaceutical setup.

As opposed to "ill-spaced code" or "claustrocode", which resides on a full disk.
And is sober.

HTH.

<joke>

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

Re: [Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Michael C U. <mu...@cb...>]

More then likely, you have a pointer problem somewhere. ie: You forgot to
dereference a pointer before writing to it. Errors in pointer use are the
single most common cause of of these kinds of errors in Windows.

Mike

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Nicholas O. Rawlings wrote:

> Hey there!
>
> I'm writing a string class as part of a school project.  Sometimes when I
> compile the class in a test program and run it, I get an error message
> saying "NSTRING.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You
> will need to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  If I
> re-compile with the exact same source code, the problem goes away and the
> test program runs perfectly.  I'm using version 4.9.8.5 on Windows 2000.  I
> have about 1300 lines of well-spaced code, but it seems unlikely to me that
> this could be too much for mingw or for my computer to handle.  Any ideas?
>
> Nicholas
>
>
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Zonnet <gko...@zo...>]

Hi Nicholas,
I think you should look into dependencies. It might happen that some
files are compiled and other are not. The linker will not always
complain about this. This means that some functions/methods that are
called are really of the wrong signature and make a mess. This can cause
such crashes. Either: re-compile the whole lot always or try to find out
how to properly set-up dependencies. I'm not sure sure about the support
for dependencies in DevCpp, can anyone, please, comment?
wkr,
Gerke


Nicholas O. Rawlings wrote:

>Hey there!
>
>I'm writing a string class as part of a school project.  Sometimes when I
>compile the class in a test program and run it, I get an error message
>saying "NSTRING.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You
>will need to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  If I
>re-compile with the exact same source code, the problem goes away and the
>test program runs perfectly.  I'm using version 4.9.8.5 on Windows 2000.  I
>have about 1300 lines of well-spaced code, but it seems unlikely to me that
>this could be too much for mingw or for my computer to handle.  Any ideas?
>
>Nicholas
>
>
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] Abnormal program termination

[Watson D. <wa...@wa...>]

Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 12:18:10 PM, you wrote:

NOR> Hey there!

NOR> I'm writing a string class as part of a school project.  Sometimes when I
NOR> compile the class in a test program and run it, I get an error message
NOR> saying "NSTRING.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You
NOR> will need to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  If I
NOR> re-compile with the exact same source code, the problem goes away and the
NOR> test program runs perfectly.  I'm using version 4.9.8.5 on Windows 2000.  I
NOR> have about 1300 lines of well-spaced code, but it seems unlikely to me that
NOR> this could be too much for mingw or for my computer to handle.  Any ideas?

1300 lines?  Uh, no.  That's not the problem.

If the error is sporadic like that, it's usually a pointer error or some
sort of memory overwrite.  Missing copy constructors will do that.  Modify
your program to log error messages to a log file and try to pinpoint where
the error is happening.  Segment fault errors are sometimes hard to
recreate and you'll need to be patient and run lots of test cases.

HTH.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis