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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Unrecoverable Application Error message in Win3.0
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Date: 3 Jul 90 05:25:13 GMT
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In article <3449@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> retter@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
 (Rob Retter) writes:
>
>    What *exactly* does Unrecoverable Application Error mean?
>

At least some of the time this means that an application has attempted to
access protected memory outside of its boundaries.  I know because I've seen
this in conjunction with debugging from CodeView (usually when my code is
doing something wrong with a pointer ;-)