This makes sense. I've confirmed that by catching the exception in main, valgrind did not report the issue. Thanks a lot for clearing this up.

Never mind the first part of my question. I got a little confused. Please answer to the valgrind part though.

Thank you.

One of my colleagues ran valgrind (memory profiler) on the following snippet:


#include <string>
class s{
std::string ss;
public:
s(){ throw -1;}

Consider this situation:


class Sample
{
std::string str;

public:
Sample(string &s)
{

In a certain dll, there is this function:


typedef DWORD STDAPICALLTYPE SOMEFUNC(VOID *pHandle, IProgress
*pProgress);

where IProgress is
class IProgress { public: virtual void Update(UINT...

Could someone let me know of a free PC game recorder that runs on Vista? In particular, I want to record Hitman 2 Silent Assassin game play.

Finally, something seems to be solving the problem. Dell claimed that it is a BIOS issue and they are working with Msft for a patch. Anyway, taking out that ATI control center app from system tray...

No I dont think there is any overheating. Besides I'm not sure if overheating can throw bluescreen and hang on there, it just switches off the PC. Overheating is a common problem with Dell, esp....

Hehe .. I'm beginning to feel like a rat in a laboratory :confused: - they are kinda making my PC an experiment piece :P

Well they better, coz that was my plan ... I'm trying out the new hard drive with a fresh image. It has just been a night and no crashes yet. If it dies, they better give me a new box.

We (the support and I) figured out that it isn't just the video card. I got a crash while using skype (ppl might say skype doesnt support Vista yet, still it was the same error msg). I googled and...

Got some solid clue now. After a restart, Windows gave me this

"You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop...

Had tried that already. Also ran a chkdsk. I've started suspecting ATI X1300 Pro drivers. Coz today when I was watching a dvd on VLC player it blue screened twice. But it doesn't happen always. Note...

My new desktop with Vista Home Premium seems to be restarting automatically now and then. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen when I'm around. I checked the events through eventvwr but it just says the...

Thanks, but that doesn't work. :sad:

I have Vista Home Premium. I installed all my favorite software, like IZArc, VLC etc. I know that they all integrate to the right click menu with options like "Extract here" and "Play with VLC"....

I've been having this dumb question on my mind for long.

Suppose I make a copy of c:\Windows folder to an external store... At some point, let's say my OS doesn't boot due to corrupted system...

well the idea is this ... in case of an OS crash, i need to be able to boot through the usb stick, so that i can run an application that fetches a windows image from elsewhere and re-images the hard...

Thanks a lot, it was quite informative .. however there is a few things that I need to focus on, so let me throw some more details.

I'm not doing this for maintaining my home pc. I'm actually...

I have a 75 GB USB drive that is NTFS formatted (can't use FAT or FAT32 coz I get a "drive too big" error). I want to be able to install bootsectors on this drive so that I can boot into DOS. I use...