On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, William Elliott wrote:

> I'm using VC++ 2010 and I'm getting this error:
>
> An unhandled exception of type 'System.AccessViolationException' occurred in
> Fourth.exe Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected
> memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

...

> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);

The answer is in http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_WRITEDATA.html and I
quote:

   If you're using libcurl as a win32 DLL, you MUST use the
   CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION if you set this option or you will experience crashes.

Due to how ownership of that FILE pointer is handled.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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