Hi,
Has anyone else come across this crash with ghc 6.6 on Windows?

   The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x5c8) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
   First-chance exception at 0x7c90eb74 in main.exe: 0xC0000008:
      An invalid HANDLE was specified.
   Unhandled exception at 0x7c90eb74 in main.exe: 0xC0000008:
      An invalid HANDLE was specified.

The program has this form:

   main = do
                   display_graphics_window_and_run_message_loop
                   -- window has now been closed
                   putStrLn "Finished\n"
                   getChar

and has been working perfectly with ghc 6.4.2. The only changes I had to make to compile it with ghc 6.6 were minor tweaks to deal with the changes to the ByteString api. When I run the ghc 6.6 compiled version, the window is displayed and works as usual, then when I dismiss the window, "Finished" is written to the console. It is only when I press return in the console that the program crashes on exit with that error message.

I'm running the program from within MS Visual Studio (the graphics window is written as a C DLL that's called from Haskell). If I just run the program directly from the desktop the program exits silently . If I run the program from a command shell nothing unusual happens either: no error is printed out but the crash-on-exit is presumably still happening.

From just looking at the error message, it looks to me like it might be that
the rts exit code has somehow held onto the handle of the window's thread after this thread no longer exists, but of course this is only a wild guess.

Alternatively, which file(s) in the ghc source distro would be the place to start looking to see what happens between the time the thread for the window has exited and the thread for main.exe exits?

Thanks, Brian.
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