On 14 April 2017 at 12:20, Paul Offord <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
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> I’ve just tried ticking all the options under Debug -> Exceptions … but I
> still don’t catch it. It’s strange because I’m sure I caused and caught
> assertion exceptions in the past.
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>
> Best regards…Paul
>
Modify the code to include a conditional just the same as the assert
condition, with a dummy assignment inside the conditional and then set a
breakpoint on that, e.g.
if (g_ascii_islower(c) || g_ascii_isdigit(c) || c == '_' || c == '-' || c
== '.') {
int dummy = 0; // breakpoint here.
}
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@
> wireshark.org] *On Behalf Of *Graham Bloice
> *Sent:* 14 April 2017 11:55
> *To:* Developer support list for Wireshark <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-dev] Debugging an assertion failure
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> On 14 April 2017 at 11:41, Paul Offord <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I need some advice. I’m debugging a problem with a dissector I’ve
> written. Tshark fails with:
>
> … \epan\prefs.c:414:prefs_register_module_or_subtree: assertion failed:
> (g_ascii_islower(c) || g_ascii_isdigit(c) || c == '_' || c == '-' || c ==
> '.')
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> If I remove the dissector the problem goes away and so I’m sure it’s the
> cause.
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> Even though I can recreate the problem in a debug build under VS 2013 it
> doesn’t catch the exception. I just see the above text flash by in the
> output command box. How can I cause execution to break when it throws the
> exception?
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> Thanks and regards…Paul
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> I haven't tried this for g_assert() exceptions, but usually you need to
> open up Debug -> Windows -> Exception Settings and check more boxes.
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Graham Bloice
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