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charliex · 12-15-2003, 12:31 PM

i don't think its return types on a main, that won't crash VC, technically only int is a valid return type, but VC allows void happily, neither will not releasing memory. releasing memory twice might cause a crash, or releasing the wrong block of memory.

I'm betting its stack corruption, if its crashing at the end of main and its not in a destructor, the stack has probably been upset.

What does the debugger say ?, it should stop you exactly at the point it crashes with hopefully a useable stack trace, if you don't know how to debug, run it in the debugger, switch on the call stack, registers etc and take a readable screen shot and post it

Are you using local variables of a fixed size to read data into ?

I'll also be happy to help you if needed, perhaps zip up your project and post it somewhere if you can

12-15-2003, 12:31 PM	#9 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	i don't think its return types on a main, that won't crash VC, technically only int is a valid return type, but VC allows void happily, neither will not releasing memory. releasing memory twice might cause a crash, or releasing the wrong block of memory. I'm betting its stack corruption, if its crashing at the end of main and its not in a destructor, the stack has probably been upset. What does the debugger say ?, it should stop you exactly at the point it crashes with hopefully a useable stack trace, if you don't know how to debug, run it in the debugger, switch on the call stack, registers etc and take a readable screen shot and post it Are you using local variables of a fixed size to read data into ? I'll also be happy to help you if needed, perhaps zip up your project and post it somewhere if you can Last edited by charliex; 12-15-2003 at 12:35 PM..