Thread: Need help understanding this: Error -1073741819

the very first thing it does is attempt to load the dll then reports it is going to try the API, then it checks the handle and reports failue in the event of a NULL handle and skips the rest of the code via a goto statement,

goto, really?? No wonder you're having problems.

By the way I would be careful about returning a negative value from main(), I would stick with positive values that can be represented by an unsigned char when working with gcc (not sure about Visual C).

Originally Posted by jimblumberg

goto, really?? No wonder you're having problems.

when used correctly goto is not a problem, besides I normally only use goto to cut down on repeated closing calls to things like free() or CloseHandle() such as

Code:

goto main_free_tmp;

Originally Posted by jimblumberg

By the way I would be careful about returning a negative value from main(), I would stick with positive values that can be represented by an unsigned char when working with gcc (not sure about Visual C).

Thanks for the advice, for now I just switched to throw GetLastError() into it instead so at the very least the system should be able to understand it