Oleg:
Hey, Happy Monday...
> >Heya. I thought the bug we're seeing might be due
> >to some code using "echofree" variables and some using
> >"kaboodle" ones. So, I changed all instances of EchoFree
> >to Kaboodle, matching case as best I could. Didn't help,
> >but it's probably a better base to start work from.
>
> Got it. Are comparing now. I hope this is the final "base to
> start work from" because as you and us have no mutual
> version control facilities, we have to manually merge the
> code and in the future it may become a real problem.
I'd be happy to re-setup the CVS server, if you'd
prefer that? I could install the 0.77 snapshot I just sent.
> >Implementation of the TCP/IP Tunneling capability for
> >the Kaboodle software application, as specified in sections
> >3.1, 3.2 and 4.3 of version 1.7 of the Kaboodle design
> >specification dated January 2002.
>
> I am afraid, the latest version available is 1.6:
Resending 1.7. Only change was to sections 5.3 and
5.4, which another dev team (hi, Suhail!) is working on.
> >I recompiled Kaboodle in debug mode, and went into
> >the debugger when it crashed. It's breaking at the
> >CNIDPC:GetPCPriority() context with "First Chance
> >exception in Kaboodle.exe: 0xC0000005: Access
> >Violation".
>
> This bug seems to relate to the pre-Akmosoft period of
> EchoFree development.
> We found 6 places from where CNIDPC::GetPCPriority
> is called. And, what it interesting, this function has a primitive
> body: { return this->m_dwPCPriority; } (it just returns a
> member value) so the only reason of crash can be invalid
> "this" pointer. Actually, the address you gave (0xC0000005)
> is rather high and most likely is garbage.
> The places of the object creation must be checked up for
> incorrect initialization. Consider the use of
> AfxIsValidAddress, e.g.:
>
> CNIDPC::GetPCPriority()
> {
> ASSERT(AfxIsValidAddress(this, sizeof *this, false)) ;
> return m_dwPCPriority;
> }
Right, "this" has a null value when the program
crashes, according to the debugger. So I bet you're right
with the initialization comment.
-Scott
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