>
> > The problem appears to be an invalid page access which usually
> > indicates an uninitialized varioable. In other words, the program
> > crashes. I don't have time to look at this right now but I will look
> > at it later tonight.
>
> yes, but this still even with a release build on nt4 should throw an
> exception. I'm starting to feel that it is failing silently within the
> c-runtime itself silently.
The problem is not within the C Runtime. The problem is that the API
call
GetQueueStatus()
is crashing when it makes a call to
WaitForMultipleObjects()
The exception is an invalid memory access with a value of 0x00000004.
My recommendation is that we remove this call from the RAND_poll()
function for the 0.9.6 release. It generated only 32 bits of data and
I doubt that the return value is really all that random for any given
application.
The other workaround is to not call the function on NT. That would
simply require adding a test for the Windows version number. The call
to GetQueueStatus() works just fine on Win9x and Win2000.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St * New York, NY * 10025 * USA
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