win7:
fasmw1.71.17

compile a project, press enter key will cancel compile, and next compile will say, write failed.

maybe it means that the file handle is not free...?

edfed,

Since Cancel means TerminateThread(), it could be so (though the window of opportunity is not so wide, you have to be [un]lucky enough).

TerminateThread should never be used anywhere.

Yes, it's exactly like that. It may be possible to fix this by modifying the code of "open", "create" and "close" in the fasm's interface API, so that they keep track of the handles and the main thread can then clean it up.


Actually, in the case of fasm's thread, its only weak spots are the file access and allocation of main memory block. If some kind of mutex was introduced to prevent thread termination in these few vulnerable places, all the rest of fasm's code is safe to be terminated at any moment, simply because it uses no external functions and operates within its own data structures that are re-created from scratch inside that single memory block each time the thread is started, overwriting any possible leftover from the previous thread executions.

I did not put any safeties into those few weak spots simply because I belittled the chances of actually hitting the mark and landing in one of them when pressing "Cancel".

I don't know if this is related, but I once had a consistent problem with "Error: Write Failed" when I was on Win 8 and using multiple version of FASMW and even FASM. I had to wait for almost a minute to enable me to run my code after the "write failed" compilation. The workaround;

1. Compatibility: Lowered to WinXP SP 2
2. Enabled write/disk cache on the disk. Can't remember the exact steps but it was something on the Disk property's Policy.

Problems gone. I think this has nothing to do with FASM.

i think this have something to do with the win32api used in fasmw.

i am currentlly a beginner in win32, cause i use msdn a lot in my job, and what i see is a blurry compatibility frontier between original and new win api designs...

mybe fasm for vista 7 and 8 should have a different code to do file operations.