Re: exception access violation

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Jade wrote:

> Hi,
> I am compiling a program with gnat gps and I am receiving an access
> violation error.  And my program crashes at this point.

I'm not sure if you refer to the compilation crashing or your program
crashing on execution. It seems this latter one.

>  Exception raised
>  >>> Exception Name        => PROGRAM_ERROR
>>>> Exception Message     => EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> Does anyone know what this could mean?

This is typical of dangling pointers. I.e. you're accessing deallocated
memory. Are you managing some heap memory by hand? If so, I'd suggest using
gdb to get backtraces and/or GNAT.Debug_Pools to aid in the diagnose (if
you're using GNAT obviously) as a first step.