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What is a General Protection Fault

From: David Preece
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:05

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..I was always under the impression that a GPF was Windoze's way
of stopping one application from writing over anothers' memory.
Am I right?

And if so, why is this happening:
  
  I am allocating a very complex dialog box on the heap. When compiled
  with Visual C++ in debug mode, it executes fine. When compiled in 
  release mode (with the compiler and linker options otherwise identical)
  this dialog box GPF's.

  The dialog in question also contains assorted mfc collection objects 
  namely CMapStringToPtr and CStringArray which I have heard assorted
  rumours about them not working.

Any ideas?

David Preece.
dmpreece@tcp.co.uk

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