Need help with SymInitializeW

Eric Pouech eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Wed Mar 14 14:53:08 CDT 2007


Paul Vriens a écrit :
> Eric Pouech wrote:
>> Kapila De Silva a écrit :
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Im trying to debug a crash in Everquest 2, (bug 7705) and am hoping
>>> someone here can help.
>>>   
>> I'll send a fix later on for the FIXME, but it's unlikely this is 
>> what's causing the crash
>> So, you have to understand where the 0xffffffff as an address comes 
>> from. sometimes, +relay helps figuring that out, but YMMV
>>
>> A+
>>
> Hi,
>
> just wanted to report that Process Explorer also calls it with 
> 0xffffffff when viewing the 'System Information':
>
> trace:dbghelp:SymInitializeW (0xffffffff (null) 0)
> trace:dbghelp:elf_load_file Processing elf file 'L"wine-kthread"' at 
> 00000000
> trace:dbghelp:elf_load_file Processing elf file 
> 'L"/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin/wine-kthread"' at 00000000
> trace:dbghelp:elf_load_file Processing elf file 
> 'L"/usr/kerberos/bin/wine-kthread"' at 00000000
> trace:dbghelp:elf_load_file Processing elf file 
> 'L"/usr/local/bin/wine-kthread"' at 00000000
>
> Could 0xffffffff mean something like system-wide?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
>
in that cas 0xffffffff is the default handle to the current process, and 
is never derefenced...
include/winbase.h:#define GetCurrentProcess() ((HANDLE)0xffffffff)
A+

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Eric Pouech
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