Program crashes with 0xC000000D and no exceptions - how do I debug it?

Question

I have a Visual C++ 9 Win32 application that uses a third-party library. When a function from that library is called with a certain set of parameters the program crashes with "exception code 0xC000000D".

I tried to attach Visual Studio debugger - no exceptions are thrown (neither C++ nor structured like access violations) and terminate() is not called either. Still the program just ends silently.

How does it happen that the program just ends abnormally but without stopping in the debugger? How can I localize the problem?

Answer 1

That's STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER, use WinDbg to track down who threw it (i.e. attach WinDbg, sxe eh then g.