Re: Euphoria and Windows XP SP2
- Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Sep 18, 2004
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You will have to disable it for Euphoria. I am getting an Athlon64 DTR laptop, it will probably have the same problem. Tommy Carlier wrote: > > I just updated to Windows XP SP2, and there were some > problems with Euphoria. My computer is only a few months > old, and has an AMD Athlon64 CPU, which has builtin DEP > (data execution protection). When enabled, this prevents > data from being executed. > In SP2, DEP is by default enabled only for critical > services and applications. This causes no problems with > Euphoria. However, when I enable it for ALL applications, > Euphoria-programs get machine errors. Like suggested in > previous posts, the manually constructed assembly-routines > cause problems. But there were also problems with c_func > and c_proc: I can show a message_box from Euphoria, but > I can't open a window (CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx > throw an error). This even happens with the small demos > that come with Euphoria (WINDOW.EXW, WINWIRE.EXW). > > As I said, the default settings of SP2 cause no problems, > but if DEP is enabled for all applications, even the simplest > Euphoria Win32-application crashes (leaves with a machine error). > > Below, you find EX.ERR produced by WINDOW.EXW: > > C:\EUPHORIA\DEMO\WIN32\WINDOW.EXW:228 in procedure WinMain() > A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement > szAppName = 682872 > hwnd = <no value> > msg = 682824 > wndclass = 682768 > WndProcAddress = 683000 > class = 704865 > id = 0 > icon_handle = 590457 > > ... called from C:\EUPHORIA\DEMO\WIN32\WINDOW.EXW:254 > > Global & Local Variables > > C:\EUPHORIA\include\misc.e: > pretty_end_col = <no value> > pretty_chars = <no value> > pretty_start_col = <no value> > pretty_level = <no value> > pretty_file = <no value> > pretty_ascii = <no value> > pretty_indent = <no value> > pretty_ascii_min = <no value> > pretty_ascii_max = <no value> > pretty_fp_format = <no value> > pretty_int_format = <no value> > pretty_line = <no value> > > C:\EUPHORIA\include\machine.e: > mem = 666392 > check_calls = 1 > > C:\EUPHORIA\DEMO\WIN32\WINDOW.EXW: > LoadIcon = 0 > LoadCursor = 1 > GetStockObject = 2 > RegisterClassEx = 3 > CreateWindow = 4 > ShowWindow = 5 > UpdateWindow = 6 > GetMessage = 7 > TranslateMessage = 8 > DispatchMessage = 9 > PlaySound = 10 > BeginPaint = 11 > GetClientRect = 12 > DrawText = 13 > EndPaint = 14 > PostQuitMessage = 15 > DefWindowProc = 16 > wav_file = 529352 > Euphoria = 682000 > ps = 682048 > rect = 682120 > my_title = 682248 > > -- > tommy online: <a > href="http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier">http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier</a> > tommy.blog: <a > href="http://tommycarlier.blogspot.com">http://tommycarlier.blogspot.com</a> > Euphoria Message Board: <a > href="http://uboard.proboards32.com">http://uboard.proboards32.com</a> >