[M3devel] Popup Windows stalling regression tests on WinXP

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
What test(s) it fails? What happens if you append the options the compiler has for building on Win boxes:
-console       produce a Windows CONSOLE subsystem program
-gui           produce a Windows GUI subsystem program
-windows       produce a Windows GUI subsystem program
About the options above , does the last two: - gui and -windows have the same meaning? 
Should the NT386 cm3 compiler build with any of these options? What does the compiler know about this options?
That errors should be just understood by the runtime (I think that's the beauty of the SAFE subset of the language), the system (Nt386) M3 runtime doesn't have the capacity to avoid the segment violation, etc of the program before it gets killed by the OS?
Thanks



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 From: jayk123 at hotmail.com
To: wagner at elegosoft.com
CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
Subject: RE: Popup Windows stalling regression tests on WinXP
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:47:35 +0000

   .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}  Olaf, this is a bug and should be fixed.
Like someone calling abort or assert(false) or NtRaiseHardError or dereferencing NULL or such.
Or skip those tests on NT386 for now.
And please provide an easy way to run specific tests.
I'm working on adding some tests (ok, just one) and it seems to be a pain.
I think it's just cm3 -FA ../../TESTARGS but it wasn't working.

Install the debuggers:

 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx 
 
  I install to c:\bin\x86 and c:\bin\amd64, though the default is c:\program files\blah. 

   mkdir c:\symbols  this is just for a local cache, not needed but nice 
 
 cd <somewhere> 
 c:\bin\x86\windbg -o -G -g -y srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols cm3 
 
When there is a popup, type:
 
 ~*k 

to get all the thread stacks, and see which one is in MessageBox or abort or whatnot.

And send the stack? Or all of them if uncertain.
You can also make a full or minidump with .dump for someone else to look at.
Good to have the cm3.exe and cm3.pdb as well.

Or I guess I can/should just fix them.
I think I've seen a few of these myself.
 
The stack might not be well displayed by the debugger.
It could be this in the toplevel exception handler/watson thingy.
 
Another thing to try is:
c:\bin\x86\windbg -I
 
to install windbg as the JIT debugger. That way, some crashes will bring up a debugger, possibly prompting first.
 
I need to make a web page with a Win32 debugging primer at some point.
Anyway, I'll try to bump this up in priority.
 
Could be that SetErrorMode(something) quashes them, but that doesn't mean it isn't a bug.
Another very good theory is that the "app type", console vs. gui, is relevant.
Console apps upon abort() or assert(false) print something to stdout/stderr and then exit, whereas gui apps
use MessageBox. The type is determined from the .exe, and you can change it at runtime via a call.
 
Not clear to me which of the various catastrophic errors this is though. I think abort().

 - Jay



  
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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:42:17 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: jayk123 at hotmail.com
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Popup Windows stalling regression tests on WinXP
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> everytime I have a look why the regression tests haven't terminated
> yet, I find another popup window with a message like this:
> 
> cm3.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
> We are sorry for the inconvenience.
> 
> Any idea how to suppress this kind of error notification?
> We'll never get reliable regression testing with popup windows :-/
> 
> Olaf
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