DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded
A technical post-mortem analysis of a Windows system crash caused by a recursive exception handling loop. The issue resulted in a stack overflow when the system failed to properly manage a DLL in memory.
Why it matters
It provides insight into low-level operating system debugging and the complexities of memory management in software development.
The team responsible for shell32.dll received a bug saying that they were responsible for a large number of crashes in a particular third party program. Opening the crash dumps showed the clear signs of a stack overflow:
Purely technical documentation of a software bug.
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