Re: Debugging an assertion failure

[Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com>]

Hi
I think you are using an illegal character in the  preference name or
module name.
Regards
Anders

Den 14 apr. 2017 12:42 em skrev "Paul Offord" <Paul.Offord () advance7 com>:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I need some advice.  I’m debugging a problem with a dissector I’ve
> written.  Tshark fails with:
>
> … \epan\prefs.c:414:prefs_register_module_or_subtree: assertion failed:
> (g_ascii_islower(c) || g_ascii_isdigit(c) || c == '_' || c == '-' || c ==
> '.')
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> If I remove the dissector the problem goes away and so I’m sure it’s the
> cause.
>
>
>
> Even though I can recreate the problem in a debug build under VS 2013 it
> doesn’t catch the exception.  I just see the above text flash by in the
> output command box.  How can I cause execution to break when it throws the
> exception?
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards…Paul
>
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