Re: winedbg error

[Dave Hawkes]

Hi Eric,

After some experimenting along the lines that you suggested
(DEBUG_PrintTypeCast faulted!), it may be that the problem is something to
do with the 'bool' type as I now eventually get lots of errors like this:

Unknown type '1'
failure on _Bool:t(0,21)=@s8;-16; at 16;

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "eric pouech" 
To: "Dave Hawkes" 
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: winedbg error
> Dave Hawkes wrote:
> > This occurs whenever winedbg attempts to load the symbols from a

particular
> > large application that I have, either due to a fault or if I start

windbg
> > directly on the command line. The debug terminal window will start with

the
> > winedbg starting message appearing and will them immediately terminate

with
> > this error.
>
> ok, sounds like winedbg is loading MSC debug info and fails...
> you could remove the assert in types.c (for DEBUG_CopyFieldlist)
> another quick test would be to print, in DEBUG_CopyFieldlist, the
> reasons
> of the failed assertion:
>   if (!(dt->type == dt2->type && ((dt->type == DT_STRUCT) || (dt->type
> == DT_ENUM))))
>   {
> DEBUG_Printf(DBG_CHN_MESG, "Copyfield list mismatch (%d<>%d): ",
> dt->type, dt2->type);
> DEBUG_PrintTypeCast(dt);
> DEBUG_Printf(DBG_CHN_MESG, " ");
> DEBUG_PrintTypeCast(dt2);
> DEBUG_Printf(DBG_CHN_MESG, "\n");
>   }
> just to see what gives...
> --
>
> Eric Pouech (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/)
> "The future will be better tomorrow", Vice President Dan Quayle