StackOverflow2013

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals

POHow to debug System.StackOverflowException without link to source code?
text
Body
copied!<p>Recently, I am regularly encountering errors of type </p> <blockquote> <p>"An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in Unknown Module.".</p> </blockquote> <p>This happens in a game (that I developed) with a quite large code base (C# / XNA). But typically the error occurs only after several minutes of gameplay (and not in every run).</p> <p>The problem is that unfortunately, the Visual Studio debugger seems to not be able to further localize the problem and just lets me inspect the assembler code without reference to my source lines. How could one debug such an error? I guess tools like Valgrind are not available in C#. Is there maybe a better debugger that can show me where the problem is localized in the source code?</p> <p>The call stack available when applying the steps in the suggested answer below. It is:</p> <pre><code>ntdll.dll!_NtWaitForSingleObject@12() + 0x15 bytes ntdll.dll!_NtWaitForSingleObject@12() + 0x15 bytes KernelBase.dll!_WaitForSingleObjectEx@12() + 0xcb bytes kernel32.dll!_WaitForSingleObjectExImplementation@12() + 0x43 bytes clr.dll!CLREvent::CreateManualEvent() - 0x15f3bb bytes clr.dll!CLREvent::CreateManualEvent() - 0x15f37a bytes clr.dll!CLREvent::WaitEx() + 0x47 bytes clr.dll!CLREvent::Wait() + 0x19 bytes clr.dll!Thread::WaitSuspendEventsHelper() + 0xa8 bytes clr.dll!Thread::WaitSuspendEvents() + 0x17 bytes clr.dll!Thread::RareEnablePreemptiveGC() + 0x181977 bytes clr.dll!Thread::RareDisablePreemptiveGC() + 0x38e3 bytes clr.dll!Debugger::SendException() + 0x12b bytes clr.dll!Debugger::LastChanceManagedException() + 0x19f bytes clr.dll!NotifyDebuggerLastChance() + 0x79 bytes clr.dll!WatsonLastChance() + 0x166 bytes clr.dll!EEPolicy::HandleFatalStackOverflow() + 0x189 bytes clr.dll!EEPolicy::HandleStackOverflow() + 0xd8 bytes clr.dll!_COMPlusFrameHandler() + 0xff302 bytes ntdll.dll!ExecuteHandler2@20() + 0x26 bytes ntdll.dll!ExecuteHandler@20() + 0x24 bytes ntdll.dll!_RtlDispatchException@8() + 0xd3 bytes ntdll.dll!_KiUserExceptionDispatcher@8() + 0xf bytes clr.dll!SystemNative::ArrayCopy() + 0x19 bytes mscorlib.ni.dll!6ed326a2() Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for mscorlib.ni.dll </code></pre>

Querying!

Guidance

An individual column

Larger individual text columns get their own page to allow for proper reading.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload