Unknown application error - c++

So I`m writing an application for an embeded system (Linux on ARM) and everything works fine, until I decide to add one more class at the start of a main function. It looks like this (can not post the actual code here):
int main ()
{
Someclass class1;
....
}
And after that application just return code 1 (generic error) right from the start. If I remove it - everything is fine again. To me it looks like I ran out of stack space - but in that case system should throw a SIGSEV or SIGSTKFLT. But there was nothing just error code 1. I tried to get stderr like that:
./app 2> error.log
But there was also nothing.
Tried to debug using remote gdb:
Client:
Cannot access memory at address 0x3030204
Cannot access memory at address 0x3030200
Server:
Remote debugging from host xxxxxx
readchar: Got EOF
Remote side has terminated connection.
Details:
I`m wirting on C++11 (TR1) (project-specific), compile with GCC 4.4.6 (also project-specific), debug with GDB 7.4
Solved
Big thanks to everyone who responded, I have managed to solve this, and it was my fault - I did not initialized device`s libraries correctly before calling a wrapper class (later they were initialized and thus it worked). Thank you all again.

The most obvious place to look would be in the class' constructor which is being called on invocation of main.

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What things can cause GDB to error before hitting main?

I have a program with a large codebase, so I can't share a minimal example. What I've done is removed everything from main so that it looks like this:
int main()
{
std::cout << "here" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
But I'm still including all of the header that I was including before. When I run the debugger (GDB 9.2) it breaks before hitting main (I've a breakpoint set on the std::cout) with the following:
Starting debugger: C:\GameDev\Tools\MSYS2-32\mingw32\bin\gdb.exe -nx -fullname -quiet -args C:/GameDev/Colony/bin/Colony.exe
done
Setting breakpoints
Debugger name and version: GNU gdb (GDB) 9.2
Child process PID: 6840
In ?? () ()
Which I understand means something has happened during initialisation? I looked at this question Debug error before main() using GDB and did as suggested, printed the info file info file and set a breakpoint manually on the entry point and running it again. That doesn't seem to give me any additional info (same as above); or maybe I don't know what I'm looking for and how to retrieve it.
I've tried running the program through Dr Memory but it seems to execute okay in there, up until shutdown at which point after leaving Dr Memory gives me no errors but 2 suspected false positives. Both of these look like they're pointing to MingW hashtable code, which I believe is from my use of std::unordered_map in a few places (the only place where that hashtable code would come in). But none of that code is invoked because main is effectively empty.
None of that code is statically initialised either.
So, what sort of things can cause this error? I can try and track down the offending code if I know what can do it.

stm32 keil cpp code blocks before entering the main

i used to write my programs with c in keil for stm32f407 and every thing works fine.
now i want to migrate to c++ .
i just changed .c suffix sources to .cpp and also add some extern "c" and my system worked fine.
but when i want to work with classes like vector or string my system blocks before entering the main.
i include vector and string classes and declare variable like : string str; and system works fine
but when i give value to it like str="dd"; in any line of my application , it compiles and download successfully to the device but at run time system blocks before entering the main;
I expected at least it proceed to the corresponding line (str="dd";) and then blocks but it blocks before entering the main.
i also configured heap and stack to 0x4000 bytes
do you have any idea about is the problem?
i also found some pages on the net which they are related to my problem but i still couldn't solve it
http://www.keil.com/support/docs/3614.htm
http://www.keil.com/forum/17845/bkpt-0xab-problem-without-swi/
i think my problem is related to the Semihosting but i can't understand it :(

redhawk module service function usage example crashes

So I am building a redhawk module and trying to just pass data through it as a test. After putting their example of how to work with input and output ports into the serviceFunction() I am able to build the module with no errors (I changed variable names to match my ports). When I put the module on the white board and link it up it's fine but as soon as I start the module it crashes. I added a line to write the incoming stream id to the console and that will hit the console 10 to 20 times before the crash (it correctly writes the id of the signal generator that is providing the signal). If I plot the output port nothing is plotted before the crash (when I say crash I mean that the module just disappears from the white board, the ide is still up and running).
The service function is:
int freqModFrTest_i::serviceFunction()
{
bulkio::InFloatPort::dataTransfer *tmp = dataFloatIn->getPacket(bulkio::Const::BLOCKING);
if (not tmp) { // No data is available
return NOOP;
}
else
{
std::cout<<tmp->streamID<<std::endl;
std::vector<float> outputData;
outputData.resize(tmp->dataBuffer.size());
for (unsigned int i=0; i<tmp->dataBuffer.size(); i++) {
outputData[i] = (float)tmp->dataBuffer[i];
}
// NOTE: You must make at least one valid pushSRI call
if (tmp->sriChanged) {
ComplexOut->pushSRI(tmp->SRI);
}
ComplexOut->pushPacket(outputData, tmp->T, tmp->EOS, tmp->streamID);
delete tmp; // IMPORTANT: MUST RELEASE THE RECEIVED DATA BLOCK
return NORMAL;
}
}
Has anyone had a similar issue or any ideas on what would be causing this?
Additional Info:
Following the sugestion by pwolfram I built a sig generator and this component into a waveform. When launching it from a domain I got the error:
2016-01-14 07:41:50,430 ERROR DCE:aa1a189e-0b5b-4968-9150-5fc3d501dadc{1}:1030 -
Child process 3772 terminated with signal 11
when trying to restart the component (as it just stoped rather then disapering) I get the following error:
Error while executing callable. Caused by org.omg.CORBA.TRANSIENT:
Retries exceeded, couldn't reconnect to 10.62.7.21:56857
Retries exceeded, couldn't reconnect to 10.62.7.21:56857
In REDHAWK 2.0.0 I created a component with the same name (freqModFrTest) and port names (dataFloatIn and ComplexOut) and used your service function verbatim. I did not however get any issues.
Here are a few things to try:
Clean and rebuild the component. The Sandbox (what you referred to as the whiteboard) will run the binary that has been built. It is possible that you've modified the code and have an older version of the binary on disk. Right click on the project and select "clean project". Then right click and select "Build Project" this will make sure that the binary matches your source code.
Run the component in debug mode. If you double click on the SPD file, under the "overview" tab there is "Debug a component in the sandbox". This will launch the component in the chalkboard within a debugging context. You can set breakpoints and walk through the code line by line. If you set no breakpoints though the IDE will stop execution when a fatal error occurs. If there is an issue (like invalid memory access) the IDE will prompt you to enter debug mode and it should point out the line in code where the issue is.
If those options fail, you can enable core dumps and use GDB to see where in the code the issue is occurring. There are lots of tutorials online for GDB but the gist is that before launching the IDE, you'll want to type "ulimit -c unlimited" then from the same terminal, launch the IDE. Now when your component dies, it will produce a core file.
Hopefully one of these gets you going down the right path.

Program crashes with 0xC000000D and no exceptions - how do I debug it?

I have a Visual C++ 9 Win32 application that uses a third-party library. When a function from that library is called with a certain set of parameters the program crashes with "exception code 0xC000000D".
I tried to attach Visual Studio debugger - no exceptions are thrown (neither C++ nor structured like access violations) and terminate() is not called either. Still the program just ends silently.
How does it happen that the program just ends abnormally but without stopping in the debugger? How can I localize the problem?
That's STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER, use WinDbg to track down who threw it (i.e. attach WinDbg, sxe eh then g.
Other answers and comments to the question helped a lot. Here's what I did.
I notices that if I run the program under Visual Studio debugger it just ends silently, but if I run it without debugger it crashes with a message box (usual Windows message box saying that I lost my unsaved data and everyone is sooo sorry).
So I started the program wihtout debugger, let it crash and then - while the message box was still there - attached the debugger and hit "Break". Here's the call stack:
ntdll.dll!_KiFastSystemCallRet#0()
ntdll.dll!_ZwWaitForMultipleObjects#20() + 0xc bytes
kernel32.dll!_WaitForMultipleObjectsEx#20() - 0x48 bytes
kernel32.dll!_WaitForMultipleObjects#16() + 0x18 bytes
faultrep.dll!StartDWException() + 0x5df bytes
faultrep.dll!ReportFault() + 0x533 bytes
kernel32.dll!_UnhandledExceptionFilter#4() + 0x55c bytes
//SomeThirdPartyLibraryFunctionAddress
//SomeThirdPartyLibraryFunctionAddress
//SomeThirdPartyLibraryFunctionAddress
//SomeThirdPartyLibraryFunctionAddress
//OurCodeInvokingThirdPartyLibraryCode
so obviously that's some problem inside the trird-party library. According to MSDN, UnhandledExceptionFilter() is called in fatal situations and clearly the call is done because of some problem in the library code. So we'll try to work the problem out with the library vendor first.
If you don't have source and debugging information for your 3rd party library, you will not be able to step into it with the debugger. As I see it, your choices are;
Put together a simple test case illustrating the crash and send it onto the library developer
Wrap that library function in your own code that checks for illegal parameters and throw an exception / return an error code when they are passed by your own application
Rewrite the parts of the library that do not work or use an alternative
Very difficult to fix code that is provided as object only
Edit You might also be able to exit more gracefully using __try __finally around your main message loop, something like
int CMyApp::Run()
{
__try
{
int i = CWinApp::Run();
m_Exitok = MAGIC_EXIT_NO;
return i;
}
__finally
{
if (m_Exitok != MAGIC_EXIT_NO)
FaultHandler();
}
}

How to fix memory access error

I am working on a migration project, here we are migrating large set of C++ libraries from Mainframe to Solaris. We have complted migration sucessfully, but while running the application, some places it crashes with 'signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address)'.
Since the application supports on windows also, we checked with purify on windows. There are no memory leaks in the application and it works fine on windows.
Can any one suggests, what could be the other reasons which may create this type of errors. Any tools for tracing this type of errors?
It's not necessarily a memory leak. It could be that a piece of memory is referenced after it is free'ed.
My friend once came to me with a piece of code that runs fine on Windows but gives segv on Linux. It turned out that sometimes the memory is still valid after you free'ed it on Windows (probably for a short period of time) but immediately triggered segv on Linux.
The line below looks wrong to me
m_BindMap[sLabel] = b; // crashes at this line at when map size
I assume you are trying to add a number to the end of the string. Try this instead
stringstream ss;
ss << ":BIND" << ns;
string sLabel = ss.str();
Are you using g++? If so, recompile with the "-g" flag. Run the program in gdb. When it crashes type "bt" (for backtrace) and that should tell you where your problem is.
I am using CC compiler on solaris and dbx debugger. I know the call stack where it is crashing. But it is abromal crash.
map<string,CDBBindParam,less<string> >m_BindMap;
CNumString ns(CNumStringTraits(0,2,'0'));
ns = m_BindMap.size();
string sLabel = ":BIND"+ns;
CDBBindParam b(sLabel,val);
**m_BindMap[sLabel] = b;** // crashes at this line at when map size is more than 2
return sLabel;