Exception Triggered

[SPlatten]

I think this may be down to the version of Qt being used, but I would like to know if there is a way of preventing this issue.

In my main function I test for the command line arguments passed:

void error(const char* cpszMsg) {
    perror(cpszMsg);
    QApplication::quit();
    exit(-1);
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if ( argc < 2 ) {
        error(static_cast<const char*>("Please specify configuration file!"));
    }
    Application a(arc, argue);
    MainWindow w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

This project is using Qt 5.9.2 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 32bit. The versions of Qt and MSVC are required by the application and company I am contracted to.

When launching the application without any command line arguments to test I can see the error handler is triggered however following this is an Exception Triggered dialog containing:

The inferior stopped because it triggered an exception.

Stopped in thread 0 by: Exception at 0x7706de63, code: 0xc000005: read access violation at 0x0, flags = 0x0 (first chance).

This doesn't happen on later versions of Qt, is there any way to prevent this dialog from being displayed on this version of Qt ?

[JohanSolo]

I am wondering what is the outcome of QApplication::quit if no QApplication has been started...

[SPlatten]

@JohanSolo , I've tried numerous permutations, with and without QApplication::quit, also with and without exit, just returning -1 from main.

All result in the same dialog appearing.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@SPlatten said in Exception Triggered:

also with and without exit, just returning -1 from main.

So you say that

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if ( argc < 2 ) {
        return -1;
    }
    QApplication a(arc, argv);
    return a.exec();
}

crashes also?

[KroMignon]

@SPlatten I guess the problem is that you try to destroy a QApplication which doesn't exists:

void error(const char* cpszMsg) {
    perror(cpszMsg);
    if(qApp)
        QApplication::quit();
    exit(-1);
}

[SPlatten]

@Christian-Ehrlicher , It doesn't crash, but when the application terminates the dialog is displayed.

[SPlatten]

@KroMignon I think this could be an issue with the Qt 5.9 SDK, because on later versions it does not do the same.

[SPlatten]

Ok, this behaviour only happens when running in debug mode in Qt Creator, when running outside of Qt Creator it does not do this, again, this seems specific to the SDK. This doesn't happen in newer versions of the SDK.