Re: crash when fetching status

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Philip Martin wrote:

> Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
>
> I don't fully grok Windows, does EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION imply a
> NULL pointer or just an invalid pointer? If the later then perhaps we
> have unitialised, or overwritten, memory and the check above won't
> help.
>
It's a segfault, so might well be an invalid pointer that's non-NULL.

> I won't object if someone applies Steve's fix, or something like the
> above. I would prefer to understand the cause, but if it remains a
> mystery then so be it.
>
I don't like Stefans fix, which actually hides the bug, but checking it
and returning an error is OK with me. A comment explaining the situation
would ofcourse help here.

//Peter

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Received on Thu Nov 4 21:23:52 2004