Re: Rebase 1.5-1: Causes invalid page fault

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Nicholas,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:35:47AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > 
> > Use gdb by setting a breakpoint ("b" command) at the call to
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ReBaseImage() and then printing ("p" command) out the arguments.  Do
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > they look valid?
> 
> Hmm gdb wouldn't let me set a breakpoint on ReBaseImage (it says the
> symbol can't be found), so I just set it to line 58.

You *did* as I suggested -- sorry, if I was unclear.

> When I step through
> the execution, I discover that the pathname argument prints out to:
> "C:\\Cygnus\\cygwin\\bin\\cygXpm-noX4.dll\000???\030?\003x\000?...
                                           ^^^^

pathname is null terminated -- this is good.  Is it null terminated for
*all* DLLs?

> Is all that extra junk supposed to be tacked on?

pathname is defined as:

    char pathname[MAX_PATH + 1];

So, the "junk" is just the tail end of the character array.

Jason

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