Re: [GD-Windows] Finding routine that's crashing

[Ben C. <be...@gu...>]

On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 6:40:45 PM, someone wrote:

> I'm getting an exception deep inside some call such that I don't have a
> call stack.  I'm using MSVC6.  I'm not sure what's causing it or where
> it happens, and it appears to be timing dependent (i.e. if I step
> through the code, it doesn't happen).

> Is there a simple way given an address to look up what function I'm in?
> Using a MAP file works for app code, but this appears to be an entry
> point somewhere deeper in the system so the address I'm seeing isn't in
> the MAP file.

 You can use the ImageHlp DLLs to get the symbols for a given location
in an app's address space. There's some sample code in MSDN for doing
this (searching for ImageHlp should find it). We've got an exception
handler in our current project that can do a stack trace and reports
everything it finds, with symbols if available - if you can't track
down the information give me a shout and I'll see if I can extract the
relevant code snippets for resolving the addresses. 

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