IDA Pro regression

[James Liggett]

Hi,
Yesterday, after not upgrading my wine CVS copy for about a month, I
upgraded to do some testing. I started IDA pro (version 4.8 demo) and
got ready to debug a DLL that's been giving me trouble. Getting ready to
start the debugger, I opened the General Registers window, and I noticed
that the boxes that show the contents of the registers were about five
times taller than they normally are. I set up the process options for
the debugger and tried to get back to the General Registers window to
start the debugger but IDA crashed with an "Abnormal Termination" error.
It doesn't give any unusual errors in the console. Can someone recommend
to me some tips for finding the problem? I have considered downgrading
CVS until I find the problem, but that seems like a *lot* of compiling
and recompiling. Is there a more efficient way to go about finding the
cause of the problem?

Thanks very much,
James Liggett

[Mike McCormack]

James Liggett wrote:
> to me some tips for finding the problem? I have considered downgrading
> CVS until I find the problem, but that seems like a *lot* of compiling
> and recompiling. Is there a more efficient way to go about finding the
> cause of the problem?

That's the best way to find the problem.  It's not as bad as you think, 
especially if you use ccache and a binary search.

CC="ccache gcc" ./configure

Additionally, the search gets faster and there's less re-compiling as 
you narrow it down further.

If you know the problem is only in the comctl32 code, you might be able 
to regress that only...

Mike

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Samstag, 20. August 2005 02:53 schrieb James Liggett:
> Hi,
> Yesterday, after not upgrading my wine CVS copy for about a month, I
> upgraded to do some testing.

I've used IDA Demo with Wine CVS from last week and didn't notice such a 
problem.
I haven't tried with any newer version though.

Stefan