FIX: C0000005 Fatal Error With Big Array Property

ID: Q221742

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In Visual FoxPro 5.x and 6.0, dimensioning a two-dimension array greater than its maximum allows value, which is 32500, causes the following or some other memory related error message:

C0000005 Fatal Error


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products 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:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Cut and paste the program below into a .PRG:


    2. 
x1 = CREATEOBJECT( "cBigArray" )
x1.aBig[1,1] = 1
x1.aBig[1000,1] = 1
x1.aBig[10000,1] = 1
x1.aBig[30000,1] = 1

DEFINE CLASS cBigArray AS Custom
   DIMENSION aBig[33000,2]
ENDDEFINE
  2. Save and run the .PRG.

    NOTE: Visual FoxPro causes a C0000005 Fatal Error and terminates.

    After the fix in Visual Studio Service Pack 3, Visual FoxPro shows this error message when the maximum allowed value is greater then 32500 on a two- dimensional array:
    Too Many Variables


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Keywords          : kbservicepack kbVFp500abug kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp2fix kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox kbVS600SP1fix 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a,6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 19, 1999