Found what it was, after days of hassles.
It would appear that D5 will quite happily allocate a local structure
2GB in size on the stack.... even when max stack is set to only
2MB. The help no longer talks about stack check option and S+ is
obviously ignored.
Ruddy great.
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From: Corey Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi Compiler problems
> Rohit Gupta wrote:
> >
> > I am having problems of memory corruption in two separate, unrelated (in the
> > sens of components used) apps, where the ret instruction causes the
> > corruption of memory inside an unrelated object.
>
> Is this repeatable within one executable? If you can rely on it happening
> in one routine then check the stack on entry and exit to make sure the
> return address isn't being messed up.
>
> The last time I had a problem like this it was because I was calling a DLL
> function that was incorrectly prototyped - from memory both my code and the
> DLL's code were cleaning up the stack, which seemed to be the cause of some
> stack corruption.
>
> --
> Corey Murtagh
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