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Nov 14, 2013
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Why is my FormatMessage call crashing trying to read my insertion parameter?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A customer was looking for assistance in debugging a crash in their product. The stack trace looked like this: The string being formatted is , and the insertion is a long (but valid) string. A unit test which passes a similarly long object name to does not crash. What is the problem? There are clues in the stack trace. The natural place to ...

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