Thread: Debugger crashes with "In RaiseException()"

Can you debug a simple console "hello world" program?

Can you debug a simple SDL "hello world" program?

Have you successfully used the debugger before?

Do you have the necessary additional parts for the library? If you don't, it can't initialize them. Is your installed library compatible with your OS and/or your debugger/compiler?

Originally Posted by shiroaisu

I tried to use SDL_Init() to initialize SDL components one at a time, and then I used breakpoints to try to figure out if there was a particular component that might've been causing this. The behavior is weird: it seems like I can only initialize the video and audio components, and any other components will cause this "exception" to stop program flow. This is really weird as I don't feel like I've encountered this problem before, and I've been working with SDL for quite a few years now.

I have the latest SDL version, and I've also tried this out on multiple versions of MinGW and no luck.

You don't show us your code.
I use SDL2 (2.0.5) on Linux and have no problem with the following function.

Code:

// This function returns 1 if any problem occur, otherwise it returns 0

int init_sdl(void) {

// Initialize SDL video
    if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "SDL could not initialize video! SDL_Error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }

// Initialize SDL audio
    if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "SDL could not initialize audio! SDL_Error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }

// Initialize SDL joystick
    if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "SDL could not initialize joysticks! SDL_Error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }

    return 0;
}

Work this funtion for you?

Normaly I would say "don't know", because I work only on Linux.
My last Windows was Win2K and have stopped using Windows in 2005.
But your problem sounds very interesting, so I have searched the web a little bit.

If you have SDL2 (2.0.5) or greater, insert the following line right before any other SDL-function (also before Init):

Code:

// This line is only needed, if you want debug the program
SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_WINDOWS_DISABLE_THREAD_NAMING, "1");

This line stops raising the exception.

Originally Posted by shiroaisu

Oh wow that actually worked! Thanks a bunch.

For future reference: where did you find that?

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