Microsoft KB Archive/159107

= Access Violation in AddAtom Inside Kernel32.dll =

Article ID: 159107

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q159107



SYMPTOMS
An application may crash with an access violation similar to the following message:

The instruction at "0x77f042f7" referenced memory at "0x00000009". The memory could not be read.

NOTE: The instruction will be within the InternalAddAtom routine referenced in the Drwtsn32.log.



CAUSE
AddAtom was broken, causing it to fail to initialize some pointers properly in some cases. Running the line of code

AddAtom(MAKEINTATOM(1));

in a C program may reproduce this problem.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: kb3rdparty kbinterop KB159107

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