Partial crash

[wlof]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a fairly complex legacy application, which uses several threads to do its job.

When it crashes (for instance when it tries to access a deleted object, or stuff like that), it seems only the thread where the error occured stops. All the other threads go on as if nothing had happened.

This is a problem. I want it to crash completely (the application is watched remotely, if it crashes partially the crash might go undetected). Is this normal behavior? How can I change it?

[Alex F]

If there is unhandled exception in any thread, the whole application stops. Maybe there is exception handling in some application threads, which prevents program to crash. Look for catch operators or global exception handling in the code.

[wlof]

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to be it. There are a few, very localized try/catch statements, but they are unrelated to the crashes. Besides, if the error is caught, there should not be a crash at all, right? Right now, when there is a crash, I get the Windows error window with the memory address and all. But the rest of the application still runs in the background.

Are there maybe specific compilation flags or thread creation options that explain this behavior?