Re: [Mingw-users] Error 0xC0000005 is now fixed

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Friday 01 August 2008 00:10:39 Brian Dessent wrote:
> This particular family of faults is particularly vexing because it's
> an access violation generated by the operating system loader (NTLDR)
> during the process of loading the program's image into memory and
> applying any relocs, before the process has even executed a single
> instruction of its own.  This means you can't really even use a
> debugger to figure out what's going on other than to retrieve the
> status code.

Sure.  Your point is that there are a number of circumstances, during 
process start-up, which may result in an access violation, and which 
are not addressed by the patch mentioned earlier in this thread; that's 
certainly a perfectly reasonable point to make.

My point, however, is that there are other possible circumstances in 
which this same exception will be raised; many, if not even a majority 
of those, will be attributable to bugs in the user's own code.

Regards,
Keith.