One has to suspect, if the OP confirms he is using a mingw built version of Perl that the problem lies in there somewhere

There's a couple of different possibilities:
1)It's MinGW-built perl using MinGW-built Win32::API;
2)It's MinGW-built perl using VC-built Win32::API;

I'm in the second category (with Win32-API-0.46). I also have Win32-API-0.46 on ActiveState perl (build 819) - it is exactly the same binary as I'm running on my MinGW-built perl, but there's no GPF with ActivePerl ... which leads me to the conclusion that the problem might lie outside Win32::API.

I still get the same length discrepancy on ActivePerl - ie Inline's 20 vs Win32::API's 21.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Win32::API Memory Exception with GetCommandLine() (which returns a static string) by syphilis
in thread Win32::API Memory Exception with GetCommandLine() (which returns a static string) by Wyrdweaver

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