• Rene Zwanenburg (14/14) Aug 21 2013 After way too long, Microsoft has finally released a hotfix[1]

"Rene Zwanenburg" <renezwanenburg gmail.com> writes:

After way too long, Microsoft has finally released a hotfix[1] 
for a call stack corruption bug when throwing an exception in a 
32 bit binary on 64 bit windows 7, and your CPU supports AVX. 
Sounds very specific, but I think quite a lot of D users are 
affected by this whether they know it or not.

You can read more about the issue here: [2] [3] [4]. These 
articles discuss C++, but any native code is affected.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2864432/en-us
[2] 
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/when-even-crashing-doesnt-work/
[3] 
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/should-this-windows-7-bug-be-fixed/
[4] 
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/developers-rejoicewindows-7-stack-corruption-fixed/