Access Violation in glsbCreateAndDuplicateSection API on PowerPC

ID: Q134988

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51

SYMPTOM

When you install a OpenGL client video driver on your PowerPC computer running Windows NT and you run an OPENGL program, for example, the Windows NT Pipes screen saver, an access violation occurs in the glsbCreateAndDuplicateSection application programming interface (API).

CAUSE

The assembly dispatch stubs for the GL API do not properly save and restore the TOC register when they make their call.

If these stubs are only called from a different module then this code works properly because the other module has code to save and restore the TOC. However, Windows NT makes several GL calls in OPENGL32 itself, such as glFlush and a variety of calls in the wgl font routines, and these calls do not save and restore the TOC because everything is in the same DLL.

RESOLUTION

To correct this problem, install the latest U.S. Service Pack for Windows NT version 3.51.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Windows NT version 3.51. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords : ntgeneral kbbug3.51 kbfix3.51.sp2
Version : 3.51
Platform : WINDOWS
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