Visual C++: Global Variables Crash Edit-and-Continue

File Name	Submitted By	Submitted On	File Size
test.zip	Timothy003	8/8/2011	2 KB

Posted by Timothy003 on 8/18/2011 at 11:36 AM

Thanks for fixing this bug. It's very hard to work around in modern C++. VC's own <type_traits> header defines variables this way and confuses the edit and continue engine. I can't wait to test the fix!

Thanks,
Timothy

Posted by Microsoft on 8/17/2011 at 3:40 PM

It is a problem in our product that the edit and continue engine mistakenly thinks that the .rdata section has changed. We have solved the problme and the fix will be included in our next major product release.

The work around is to reduce the number of const and static class member variables or to initialize them randomly, if possible.

Thanks very much for the bug report!
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VC++ CodeGen and Tools

Posted by Microsoft on 8/9/2011 at 11:51 PM

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Posted by Timothy003 on 8/8/2011 at 11:44 PM

That's correct, as long as you get the exact error (note the ".rdata"). The cast to void is just to avoid a compile warning. I actually just added and deleted a newline at the end of the file to enable me to apply code changes. Visual Studio doesn't exactly crash as in the description with this code; it takes a lot more global variables to crash it.

Thanks,
Timothy

Posted by Microsoft on 8/8/2011 at 11:26 PM

Hi Timothy003,

Thanks for your feedback. To get a perfect repro, could you please help to confirm the following?

1. The main method before debugging is like
int main()
{
a_;
}
2. When debugging, change the main method into:
int main()
{
(void)a_;
}
3. Continue debugging will cause the error described.

Please feel free to let me know if the above meet you situation or not.

Thank you.

Posted by Timothy003 on 8/8/2011 at 6:39 PM

Sorry for the poor steps. I've attached a sample project zip.

Thanks,
Timothy

Posted by MS-Moderator09 [Feedback Moderator] on 8/8/2011 at 2:52 AM

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Sorry for delay. In order to research the issue reported, we must first reproduce in our labs. Unfortunately, we are unable to reproduce the issue with the steps you provided.

Could you please provide us with a sample project zip?

It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide us this information as quickly as possible.

Thank you

Posted by MS-Moderator01 on 7/28/2011 at 9:50 PM

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Visual C++: Global Variables Crash Edit-and-Continue by Timothy003