[IronPython] Fwd: VS2005 Iron Python

[Charlie Moad]

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From: Charlie Moad <cwmoad at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [IronPython] VS2005 Iron Python
To: Discussion of IronPython <users at lists.ironpython.com>


On 8/25/06, Dino Viehland <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Are you running w/ all the bits that came w/ the VS SDK, or are you mixing & matching w/ the latest IronPython?  There may be some issues w/ the latter case but once you get it compiling it usually works.

I have RC2 downloaded, but the reference is using the IP that came
with the VS SDK.  RC2 was in my path, but I removed it and recompiled
just in case.

> 0xc0000005 is the status code for an access violation so it would look like there's a crash in unmanaged code somewhere.  Can you enable native debugging & break on 1st chance AVs?  given that most of the SDK sample code is managed code a crash like this is a little strange, but hopefully w/ a stack trace hopefully someone from our team or the VS SDK team can figure it out.

Forgive me if I provide useless info.  I am a linux/python convert.
Enabling native debugging gives me this error:

Unhandled exception at 0x500af719 in devenv.exe: 0xC0000005: Access
violation reading location 0xfeeefef6.  (I am guessing this is
useless)

If I hit "Break" on this error it drops me to the "return" line for
this code from "vswprint.c".

int __cdecl _vsnwprintf_s (
        wchar_t *string,
        size_t sizeInWords,
        size_t count,
        const wchar_t *format,
        va_list ap
        )
{
    return _vsnwprintf_s_l(string, sizeInWords, count, format, NULL, ap);
}

From the locals listing it looks like arg "ap" is a null pointer, so
this is probably the culprit.  Here are the other args just in case.

+               string  0x00104004 "ation6\consoleapplication6.sln"
 unsigned short *
                sizeInWords     260     unsigned int
                count   58641952        unsigned int
+               format  0x037ece00 "ﻮﻮﻮﻮ"       const wchar_t *
+               ap      0x00000000 <Bad Ptr>    char *

I don't really know how to provide you with a stack trace, but I saw
the option to save a dump.  I am attaching that file.

Let me know if there is something more helpful I can do.

- Charlie