FIX: Compiling VB5 Applications with Large UDTs May Crash

 Last reviewed: December 19, 1997
Article ID: Q171557

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Compiling a project in Visual Basic 5.0 or compiling a project in Visual Basic 5.0 converted from Visual Basic 4.0, may cause an error similar to the following: 

   "The instruction at "0x77f64d07" referenced memory at "0x0013fff8. The
   memory could not be read.

   Click on OK to terminate the application"
Clicking OK terminates Visual Basic 5.0.

CAUSE

Doing Put/Get on large records that contain records, VBA fails when writing out the GetPut descriptor.

A common trait of the UDTs that cause the error is that these UDTs often contain arrays of other UDTs. For example: 

      Type MyType
         x as integer
         y as integer
      End Type

      Type MyType2
         a as string
         b(6) as Mytype
      End Type
Other UDTs suspected of causing the error contained 15 or more elements.

RESOLUTION

The only sure workaround is to use smaller records.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where,
               and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q171554
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97
               Service Pack 2

MORE INFORMATION

The UDT must be very large to cause this problem. However, it is not strictly size but the types of the members as well. The exact record size limit is unknown. 

Keywords          : kbprg VS97FixlistSP2 VB5FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP3
Technology        : kbvba
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack

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Last reviewed: December 19, 1997
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