Re: [Mingw-users] MingW linker options and libraries

[Shanti R. <sha...@ea...>]

Thanks for the suggestions. The problem turned out to be that argv[0] 
wasn't I was expecting, and my attempt to fopen(argv[0]) failed.

Shanti

> heapcheck may be useful too (may need to modify it a bit to compile 
> with mingw):
> http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/HeapCheck.html
>
> Also there's DrMingw (from mingw-utils), for JIT debugging , great for 
> these situations.
>
> Also, make sure you use the latest stable mingw.
>
> Happy bug busting. :)
>
>
> Greg Chicares wrote:
>
>> Shanti Rao wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> When I run a console program from the console, I get a message saying
>>>
>>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an 
>>> unusual way.
>>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>>>
>>> But it works fine when I run the program from gdb. Methinks the 
>>> console interface isn't being set up right.
>>
>>
>>
>> This set of symptoms arises frequently. Typically, the
>> problem is an uninitialized variable. Such a variable has
>> a random value when you run it normally, but the debugger
>> may happen to zero-initialize it, making the program seem
>> to work.
>>
>> Try to reduce the program to a tiny testcase that reliably
>> reproduces the problem. Once you've eliminated everything
>> that's not the problem, you'll probably see it.
>>
>> Alternatively, try using a 'malloc debugger' such as
>> mpatrol. Or add lots of runtime assertions to check sanity
>> at every step. Or try using a map file to find where the
>> problem is, and backtrack from there.
>>
>>
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