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BCW.exe crashes

Asked by: aerol

I've been using BC++ 5 for years on one of my products. The program has slowly grown over the years and a few months ago I noticed that it took a fair amoumt more time to get into the project. That was OK. Now I get a BCW.exe crash when I try to run to a break in the debugger. Any thoughts? I have only 64 meg of memory and just upped the system virtual memory by 2x or so becasue I thought that may help. Any other settings or suggestions?

Thanks!

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1999-09-19 at 09:19:47ID10208082
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Web Ontology Language (OWL)

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Answers

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-09-19 at 12:59:38ID: 2058128

1. Test you CSM file . Can be he is too much. Delete it
   and rebuild you Apps.
2. Use Inline Debugger (from IDE , not extern debugger)
3. Try make optimization by Size.
Post, what results.
Alex

 

by: aerolPosted on 1999-09-19 at 14:30:13ID: 2058226

Thanks for your reply Alex. See comments below.

>1. Test you CSM file . Can be he is too much. Delete it
>and rebuild you Apps.

I deleted it and rebuilt the app. The .csm file is about 14 meg in size. Is this a problem?

>2. Use Inline Debugger (from IDE , not extern debugger)

I've always used the debugger from within the IDE. The IDE is crashing when I put a break in a new function and I try to run to that point.

>3. Try make optimization by Size.

I'm using no optimization. I've always done this when I compile with debug. The program does run fine except when I run with a breakpoint and try to get to that point.

>Post, what results.

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-09-19 at 23:45:44ID: 2058881

1. From you data seems me, that problem is in you new   function. Does breakpoint in other functions work?
Post snipped code of you function.
2. CSM 14 mb is not problem (problem >= 100mb)
3. If crashes InLine debugger, what about extern
   Debugger ?
Alex

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-09-21 at 23:24:32ID: 2065057

aerol ??
And one think: after searching, i think, that
problem in parameters of you tlink32.ini file.
Test you parameters and compare with my(as example)
Can be you must increase some one:
[debugTableSizes]
_LINEBUFFERSIZE=0x60
_SRCFILEMGRSIZE=0x100
_SSDSIZE=0xc
_TYPESCACHESIZE=0x400
_SYMCACHESIZE=0x50
_NAMESCACHESIZE=0x60
_BROWSERCACHESIZE=0x320
_CV4MODALLOCSIZE=0x100
_LOCALCACHESIZE=0x20
_NAMEALIASSIZE=0x80
_SYMSTACKSIZE=0x3
_TYPEHASHTABLESIZE=0x400
_TYPEALIASSIZE=0x10

[linkerTableSizes]
_SYMBOLTABLESIZE=0x400
_MODULETABLESIZE=0x400
_SEGDEFTABLESIZE=0x400
_LSEGTABLESIZE=0x400
_PHYSSEGTABLESIZE=0x400
_EXTDEFTABLESIZE=0x400
_PUBDEFTABLESIZE=0x400
_IMPORTTABLESIZE=0x400
_EXPORTTABLESIZE=0x400
_INSTANCETABLESIZE=0x400
_LXDATATABLESIZE=0x400
_FIXUPPTABLESIZE=0x2000
_ENTRYTABLESIZE=0x400
_GROUPSTABLESIZE=0x40

For example, In my Apps (yestoday) i MUST increase  
_BROWSERCACHESIZE from 0x200 to 0x320.
Alex

 

by: aerolPosted on 1999-09-22 at 09:45:12ID: 2066709

Hmmmmm. That .ini file is not on my system.

Dave P

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-09-22 at 10:46:04ID: 2066902

Sorry, aerol, i don't understand:
this INI file not fit you, or you work without INI file?

 

by: aerolPosted on 1999-09-22 at 16:24:23ID: 2067749

I have two systems that have Borland 5.02 installed. I could not find tlink32.ini on either system. The file does not exist on either system.

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-09-22 at 23:03:47ID: 2068275

1. You can use this file(place in you directory), but:
2. If you use 5.02, can be i know you problem:
 it is incremental linker! Make flag of such linker "off"!

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-10-04 at 12:08:53ID: 2097712

New idea:

Try set the Windows  maximum breakpoints to say 400. To do this add this line to the 386Enh section of  SYSTEM.INI.

[386Enh]
...
MAXBPS=400
Alex

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-10-07 at 13:19:54ID: 2107861

aerol???

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-10-13 at 08:35:10ID: 2123742

aerol, sorry , that i reply, but you don't rect!
I guess, that you have solved problem. How?
Help you one of my comments?
Alex

 

by: AlexVirochovskyPosted on 1999-10-22 at 09:39:14ID: 2149840

Hi, finally i found really reason for you problem (after
that , that same thing happen with me!).
Reason : invalide DSW file.
Solution: delete DSW file (BC creates it automtically)!
And 2-nd solution: using External debugger.

Alex

 

by: aerolPosted on 1999-10-23 at 04:15:36ID: 2151769

I'll try that this weekend. I've been out of the country for a couple of weeks.

Dave P

 

by: aerolPosted on 1999-10-23 at 04:46:11ID: 2151794

Deleteing the .dsw file appears to have solved my problem. I'm, of course, fearfull that it will return but so far so good.!

Thanks!

Dave P

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