[DUG] D2007 IDE Crash

[Jeremy North]

A known bug without a fix until Delphi 2009 and then Delphi 2010. Hard
to reproduce.

I believe in Delphi 2010 this bug has been finally squashed for good.
Never seen it personally, but many have. A number of QC's about it and
newsgroup posts.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:19 AM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> D2007 has been really solid, put it this way better than D5 which I also use
> a lot, however in recent weeks I have managed to crash the IDE 3 or 4
> times - each time it looks like a trivial bug in an editing routine.
> Triggered by either scrolling up, trying to insert a newline,
> copy/paste......all pretty trivial stuff.
>
> A messagebox pops up - the latest was after pressing enter to insert a new
> comment line...
>
> Assertion failed amount >=  dest - startDest, file ek_filbuff.cpp, line 315
>
> And of course each time I lose a small amount of editing work and have to
> remember it.....this time fortunately I got a screenshot of what I had
> written after the screen froze.
>
> In this case the IDE had probably been open for more than a week, although
> the project not for long.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John
>
>
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