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Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
can a sysop open this QC?2005-10-25 12:06:29 PM cppbuilder8 qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx I'd like to have it looked into for Dexter since Borland have been urging people to contribute to their QA program on the 24h. And it's a legitimate bug that will affect a lot of people. |
Russell Hind
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 03:34:23 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
Zach Saw wrote:
Quoteqc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx I think it would be worth attaching a buildable project to the report. Some reports can get thrown out as test case error or can't reproduce if the given code doesn't immediately compile, and your code requires the tester to create a VCL app, add a button to it, paste part of the code in the button handler and the other part outside of the button handler. Also, the way I confirmed the report was to look at task manager. A better way to show the problem. Looking at task manager doesn't necessarily mean there is a memory leak. Given the quantity of reports to go through, a buildable project that demonstrates the problem easily has much more chance of being looked at. But I completely understand that some problems are hard to reproduce in a simple case. I have plenty of places where the IDE/compiler crashes, but can't get them down to a reproducible test case because they are random. Cheers Russell |
Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 04:45:59 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
Thanks for replying Russell.
While it's easy for me to create a project and attach it to the QC, it would actually be more painful for the tester to check it out since the project settings on my machine may be entirely different from theirs, and you know how builder loves dealing with projects from one computer to another... There are other ways of confirming memory leak -- FastMM or Memproof both will report the leak. It is actually through Task Manager that I realised there's a leak, but I confirmed it with FastMM & Memproof before filing it. I think I did mention in my comments about CodeGuard not being able to catch it. Thanks for the suggestions anyway. BTW, I too face a lot of random crashes from the IDE, but I bet the Borland guys will think it's our own component that causes it to crash... They're very well trained at giving out "not our fault" statements... "Russell Hind" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message QuoteZach Saw wrote: {smallsort} |
Russell Hind
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 05:59:54 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
Zach Saw wrote:
Quote
$(BCB)\include\vcl And the same for the lib and that no other paths are specified such as intermediate output/pre-compiled header etc (which is a pain as I have changed the defaults for these on new projects!) After that, it should move from machine to machine ok. Cheers Russell |
Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 09:11:33 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
Russell,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll get to that if I have some time to spare. Right now I've got a bigger issue on hand -- BCB 6 apps can't run stably on dualCPU / HT machines... :( I get tonnes of memory corruption... "Russell Hind" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message QuoteZach Saw wrote: |
Alan Bellingham
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 09:45:38 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
"Zach Saw" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote:
QuoteI'll get to that if I have some time to spare. Right now I've got a bigger -- ACCU Conference 2006 - 19-22 April, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, UK |
Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 09:49:55 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
multithreaded apps.
only multithreaded apps on HT / dualCPU machines will fail. Memproof reveals memory access overrun in AnsiString and some VCL classes. "Alan Bellingham" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message Quote"Zach Saw" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote: |
Zach Saw
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 09:56:39 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?Quoteonly multithreaded apps on HT / dualCPU machines will fail. |
Alan Bellingham
CBuilder Developer |
2005-10-25 10:59:07 PM
Re:can a sysop open this QC?
"Zach Saw" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote:
Quote>only multithreaded apps on HT / dualCPU machines will fail. multithreading. Alan Bellingham -- ACCU Conference 2006 - 19-22 April, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, UK |