Microsoft KB Archive/221642

= FIX: Memory Leak With SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT =

Article ID: 221642

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q221642



SYMPTOMS
The SYS(1016) function reports increasing use of memory when the following command is issued: SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
  Create a program file named Usemem.prg with the following code: lnx = '' FOR lni = 1 TO 1000 SET SYSMENU TO DEFA IF TYPE('lnx') = 'C'        lnx = VAL(SYS(1016)) ENDIF lnY= VAL(SYS(1016)) ?ALLTR(STR(lnY - lnx)) lnx = lnY ENDFOR  Run the program file. Observe the output on the screen and note that the User Object Memory reported by the SYS(1016) function increases by 336 bytes in four of five iterations and 416 bytes on the fifth iteration.

Additional query words: KBDSE

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbxbase kbvs600sp3fix KB221642

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.