Re: [Quickfix-developers] MS VC++ release builds

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

Do you have the callstack enabled?

--oren

On Jun 14, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Timothy Yates wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation: 
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/FAQ.html
>
> Has anyone else had problems with apparently random crashes and memory
> corruptions in quickfix when using MS VC++, specifically using the 
> default
> release build options?
>
> We have a C++ production application that uses quickfix.  We have had 
> to
> build quickfix with all optimizations turned off.  We were unable to 
> track
> down the memory corruptions that occurred with a release build.
>
> Recently, I have been using the Java version of quickfix.  I have a 
> test
> application that generates MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh messages  and
> populates them with essentially random price data.  The receiving
> application sends a subscribe message and the test application starts
> sending refresh messages at a rate of about 20 per second.  When using 
> a
> release build of quickfix_jni.dll, the receiving application often 
> crashes
> after several hundred messages due to an access violation.  This 
> typically
> occurs in the destructor call from Message.finalize(), other times in
> Group.finalize(), and othertime some place else.   I do a session reset
> between test runs.  Sometimes the application does not crash at all.   
> I
> have tried disabling all processing of refresh messages by the 
> receiving
> application (so it just returns from fromApp without doing anything), 
> and
> the crashes still happen.
>
> The random nature of the crashes leads me to suspect a threading issue.
>
> When I use a debug build of quickfix_jni.dll, I can never get it to 
> crash.
> This might just be luck, or it might indicate a problem with compiler
> optimizations.
>
> I think this problem may have something to do with repeating groups as 
> I
> have only started noticing it since implementing market data support.
> However, it could just be that I have started stressing quickfix more 
> than
> before.
>
> Interestingly, the corruptions we were experiencing in our production 
> C++
> application also occurred when there was a large amount of market data
> traffic.
>
> I am using quickfix 1.7.0.
>
> Tim Yates
> Lead Developer
> Patsystems (US) LLC
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