Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] Interrupting a thread causes a segmentation fault

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] Interrupting a thread causes a segmentation fault
From: Viatcheslav.Sysoltsev_at_[hidden]
Date: 2011-02-21 03:22:04

> I've been compiling my test program with -fexceptions but I didn't  
> originally compile the Boost libraries with that option. In light of  
> this discussion, I recompiled the Boost libraries with -fexceptions  
> (using the command .\bjam toolset=gcc cxxflags="-fexceptions" -a) and  
> recompiled my test program. Unfortunately, the problem still persists.
>
> I added a breakpoint to 00403077 (after I recompiled my program after  
> recompiling the Boost libraries as described above, 00403077  
> corresponded to the same line in the disassembly of  
> boost::this_thread::interruption_point that 0040306B originally did) and  
> it resolved to 0x2063f. I also added a breakpoint to __cxa_throw (in a  
> separate debugging session) and it resolved to 0x40641c. In this second  
> case (with the breakpoint at __cxa_throw), I stepped forward instruction  
> by instruction once the breakpoint was reached and established that the  
> segmentation fault occurs several instructions into __cxa_throw itself.
>
> I also ran a quick test program (modified
> from the test program I included in my original post) to check that the
> exception handling in MinGW is working. I altered the code so that the
> interrupt is removed and a std::exception is thrown by the thread
> function after 10 iterations of the while loop. The std::exception was
> caught without incident by the catch(...) block, so exception handling
> seems to work fine with regular exceptions.
>

Hi William,

Maybe exception handling does not work well across dll boundary? I never  
used minGW, but internet search showed there were/are some difficulties  
with it. Is it feasible to upgrade to 4.5 compiler, since Andy says it  
works for him?

-- Slava