Investigating the XInitThreads deadlock bug
Eric Pouech
pouech-eric at wanadoo.fr
Thu Feb 5 14:34:15 CST 2004
> I also added some display commands to show you the details of the critical
> section in question. Now, if you look at what the display says you'll
> notice something odd: at first crit = 0x0011d1e0, but then it switches to
> 0x403112b8. And this is without any breakpoints having been set up within
> RtlEnterCriticalSection! So it can't be a context switch - it seems like a
> bug in the debugger. Or is this intentional in some way?
it's not really intentional. However, the first asm insn of any
functions (the prolog) are used to set up the frame for the function (ie
the way to look at local vars...)
in the first two instructions, the function's frame is not properly set
up, however, winedbg believes that it's set up and use the current
information to look at local & passed variable (while the current frame
is still the one from the caller).
in general this is not problematic, it may be trickier when using
conditional breakpoints on passed variables (where you'll never get the
correct information).
Setting the bp after the prolog (as you did) is the right solution.
A+
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