Re: [ros-dev] Explorer startup crash since r33366

[James Tabor]

Hi!
Good job! Colin!

I tested head too and have this freeldr.ini issue with Qemu......

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Colin Finck <mail(a)colinfinck.de> wrote:
>   Hi everybody,
>
>  I tracked down the Explorer startup crash we experience since r33366 and
>  came to some weird results.
>  First of all, this crash also occurs when testing under Windows. Also
>  Explorer runs well when it's compiled with MSVC using the supplied
>  "explorer.sln" file.
>
>  Then I put MessageBoxes to some code pathes to track down, where the crash
>  occurs.
>  The weird thing is: It fails in the IconCache code (which doesn't even
>  handle strings, so shouldn't be affected by Unicode at all).
>
>  Just put a MessageBox at explorer.cpp:389 and then after _icons[ICID_NONE]
>  was assigned. You will see that the second message box won't appear.
>  You can also put a MessageBox in the Icon constructor, it won't be shown
>  either.
>
>  So what's going wrong here?
>  Bug in our mingw startup routine, memory corruption, bug in gcc, ...? I'm
>  out of ideas.
>
>  Best regards,
>
>  Colin 
>