How can I debug a win32 process that unexpectedly terminates silently?

Question

I have a Windows application written in C++ that occasionally evaporates. I use the word evaporate because there is nothing left behind: no \"we\'re sorry\" message from Window

Answer 1

Well, the problem is you are getting an access violation. You may want to attach with WinDBG and turn on all of the exception filters. It may still not help - my guess is you are getting memory corruption that isn't throwing an exception.

You may want to look at enabling full pageheap checking

You might also want to check out this older question about heap corruption for some ideas on tools.