Sorry if posting this here is unappropriate, but for some reason I am unable to post to firebird-devel. I hope this catches someone's eye anyway.

I am consistently getting a crash when calling the Services API on Windows Server 2003. The problem does not appear on other platforms. There is a clear reason for the crash in the code of Firebird (RC4: alice.cpp, line 619). But of course, it is always possible that I am doing something wrong.

Anyway, in alice.cpp, program execution proceeds as follows:

1. common_main is called and AliceGlobals gblInstance is created. tdgbl is a pointer to it. tdgbl->sw_redirect is REDIRECT and tdgbl->output_file is 0xFFFFFFFF (perhaps uninitialized).

2. Execution proceeds normally and reaches line 617 (normal execution, no errors). Still, tdgbl->sw_redirect is REDIRECT and tdgbl->output_file is 0xFFFFFFFF. Because of this, the condition "tdgbl->sw_redirect == REDIRECT && tdgbl->output_file != NULL" is true so execution proceeds to line 619.

3. Line 619 crashes because calling fclose( 0xFFFFFFFF ) causes an access violation.

Is this a bug in FB or am I calling the Services API in a wrong way?

If this is a bug, has this been reported already to the Tracker (I didn't find anything related).

Best regards,
Antti Nivala