[Gdal-dev] Crash in VC++ in GDALClose(VRTDataset*)

[Garvan Keeley]

Hi,
I am trying to use some of the code from gdal_translate, but I found it was
crashing when built under Visual Studio .Net (unmanaged C++).

Here is a small C++ console app that crashes in the function GDALClose().
Any idea what might be causing this?


// assume library paths and linker options are set correctly
// i.e. add the gdal source tree to additional include dirs and
// gdal_i.lib added to linker dependencies

#include "gdal.h"
#include "frmts\vrt\vrtdataset.h"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	VRTDataset* poVDS = new VRTDataset( 100, 100 );
	GDALClose( (GDALDatasetH) poVDS );

/*
The above function crashes with an "Unhandled exception" when the VRTDataset
pointer is deleted (at line 336 of gdalopen.cpp):

    for( i = 0; i < nSharedDatasetCount; i++ )
    {
	...
          delete poDS; <-- crashes here
 	...
    }
*/

	return 0;
}


Garvan Keeley
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