Re: Assertion error when building in Debug mode with MSVC

[Paul Eggert]

On 1/26/22 01:45, Julien Marrec wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> I’m not sure why you say it’s a local variable. It’s a “FILE *” isn’t it?

A FILE * is a pointer, and can be either local or global. This one's local.


> [1] If you want to reproduce, and have conan installed and MSVC 2019, this
> command should do it

Ships passing in the night, I'm afraid. I don't use MSVC.

I installed the attached patch into Gnulib and propagated this into m4 
on Savannah so it should appear in the next m4 release. In the meantime 
you can build with /MD instead of /MDd. Or if you want to learn the GNU 
build system you can build m4 from Git.

This is actually a false alarm in /MDd, since POSIX says fclose is 
supposed to fail with errno == EBADF instead of crashing when the 
underlying file descriptor is closed. Although Microsoft doesn't claim 
POSIX conformance, maybe you can file a bug report with them to save 
other people this kind of hassle.

All the attached does is work around the /MDd bug.

0001-close-stream-avoid-crash-on-MSVC-Debug-mode.patch
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