[GHC] #942: Windows programs throw uncaught Invalid HANDLE exception on exit

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Sigbjorn,

Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 10:04:52 PM, you wrote:

is that means that current 6.6 precompiled snapshots like
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20061031-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.gz
should work fine? this problem is very important for me too



> I fixed this one a week or two ago on the 6.6 branch --

>     http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2006-October/032154.html

> Have not had the time&space to drag it over to HEAD since then.

> hth
> --sigbjorn

> GHC wrote:
>> #942: Windows programs throw uncaught Invalid HANDLE exception on exit
>> --------------------------------------------+-------------------------------
>>  Reporter:  brianh at metamilk.com             |          Owner:         
>>      Type:  bug                             |         Status:  new    
>>  Priority:  normal                          |      Milestone:  6.6.1  
>> Component:  Runtime System                  |        Version:  6.6    
>>  Severity:  major                           |     Resolution:         
>>  Keywords:  uncaught exception HANDLE exit  |     Difficulty:  Unknown
>>  Testcase:  N/A                             |   Architecture:  x86    
>>        Os:  Windows                         |  
>> --------------------------------------------+-------------------------------
>> Changes (by brianh at metamilk.com):
>>
>>   * severity:  normal => major
>>
>> Comment:
>>
>>  I've changed the severity to major because I feel this bug prevents me
>>  distributing any binaries compiled under ghc6.6 for Windows, since whether
>>  or not the bug is "visible" (ie if you choose to run the binary under a
>>  debugger), obviously something is very wrong indeed with the runtime or
>>  else it wouldn't be trying to use an invalid handle (or cause one of the
>>  windows DLLs to do so) at program exit.
>>
>>   
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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com