After ins talling DirectX 8 on my system, everytime I try to run a program I keep getting the following stuff in the debugger: Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ADVAPI32.DLL'', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GDI32.DLL'', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL'', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded ''C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL'', no matching symbolic information found. The thread 0xFFF9C395 has exited with code 0 (0x0). The program ''C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\MyProjects\windowsgpd\Debug\windowsgpd.exe'' has exited with code 0 (0x0). I even tried to run a basic window shell but keep getting the same thing. If anyone knows what the problem is, please help. Thnaks!

Those are not errors :

the Loaded : xxxx.dll no matching symbolic iformation only means that the loaded dll has no debug information in it and hence you cannot step into it. This is not a problem, since you usually don't want to debug windows code anyway!!

The dlls that are loaded are essential resources for any application to run under windows.

When it says that a thread or program has exited with code 0, it usually means that the software or thread stopped correctly.

The exit code can come from 2 points. The return statement of main or the value passed to the function exit.

By convention, 0 means that the software stopped correctly. So if you have a problem in your code and calls code(0) you just broke the convention. Usually people map the code number with a fatal error. This gives them a idea of what went wrong if the application terminates without code 0.


So unless you have explicity called exit(0), it seems that your thread and your program terminated correctly, so you have no problems at all.


Edited by - Gorg on July 11, 2001 3:28:27 PM