Re: bjam crashing... debugging bjam

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-20 17:14:25

Reece Dunn wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have just done a CVS update and have attempted to build my project
> (gui/libs/devel). After a few moments, bjam crashes with:
> 
> The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in
> the application at location 0x00402f23.
> 
> Pressing Cancel (to debug) does not open up the VC 7.1 IDE (allowing me
> to debug bjam).
> 
> I also did a cygwin/gcc build and am getting an empty bjam.exe.stackdump
> file.
> 
> The problem does not appear when using the gcc toolset and appears to be
> independant of the project (I have tried two different projects with the
> same results). It is reproducible on: msvc, cw and borland, with:
> 
> --[ user-config.jam ]--
> 
> import toolset : using ;
> 
> using gcc : 3.3 ;
> using msvc : 8.0 : f:/devel/microsoft/vc8/bin/cl.exe ;
> using borland : 5.5 : f:/devel/borland/bcb5/bin/bcc32.exe ;
> using cw : 9.2 : "C:/Program Files/Metrowerks/CodeWarrior9/Other
> Metrowerks Tools/Command Line Tools/mwcc.exe" ;
> 
> --[ end ]--
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this?

By reverting v2/build/generators.jam and v2/build/type.jam to their 
previous versions (77 and 36 respectivly), bjam does not crash and 
things work. Therefore, the crash is somewhere in the processing of one 
of these updated files :(.

However, the other optimizations appear to be working :).

Regards,
Reece