Top-Down Structs

[Bob W]

"John C" <johnch_atms at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Couldn't repro on my Windows XP machine. Runs without throwing exceptions 
> here.

It all depends what you were doing with the structs.
Just declaring them won't cause any trouble.

In my case I was calling the Win32 functions
PeekConsoleInputA() and/or ReadConsoleInputA(),
which was sufficient to upset Win XP.

Both functions expect a pointer to an INPUT_RECORD
structure.