Wily
>A-hah. Uhhmmmm... still got nothin' <g>... But I still don't get the sense
>that you've isolated the failure point anywhere near enough.
Snap, so the next move is a test bed.
>There are some classes I don't recognize in the small snippet of code you
>posted too. I assume they've gone through the "commenting out" process
>already?
Oh yes :(
>Was FastMM4, with compile debugging options set to 11 ("ludicrous speed" --
>obscure movie reference...), no help? That would at least help with things
>like double frees, ruling out entire classes of problems.
Not sure about 11 but its set to full debug mode in the IDE plus MadExcept
>>> I remembered I'd been using TMimeMess in background threads for ages <<
>
>Yup. I didn't even need to walk your dog to remember that...
If you can remember that maybe you can help me with some other old code <g>
>>> It has to be some horrible complex interaction of something. <<
>
>It always seems like that, yet 8/9 times out of 10 (in problems with this
>smell), it falls far short of horribly complex to be satisfying! For me,
>it often comes down to, "Jeez! All that, for just this?!?"
Hmm that brings back memories.
>>> The last one like this (several years ago now) took months to track down.
>At least this time its not intermittent. <<
>
>Yeah. I think I remember that one too. In fact, I think I remember more
>than a few stouts were to be poured, in more than one forum ... were they
>in Elevate, CompuServe?... No matter. Nowadays, maybe we should pour the
>beers WHILE attempting to solve the problem, not in celebration of its
>solution <g>. Yup. Sounds good to me. I'm headin' for the bar...
It was Elevate DBISAM eventually I found something that would replicate the
problem consistently and Tim fixed it.
Thanks for the comments and support.
Roy Lambert
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