After the following patch : ChangeSet ID: 989259340138108821120113 CVSROOT: /opt/cvs-commit Module name: wine Changes by: julliard(a)wine2. 01/05/07 14:15:40 Modified files: include : oleauto.h wtypes.h include/wine : obj_base.h obj_oleaut.h Log message: Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> Added support for the DECIMAL type. Names are no longer suffixed with 32! Removed it. Borland Builder 4 crashes while starting :-/ Tracing the crash shows that it hangs immediately after the *first* variant Api access : Call oleaut32.VariantCopyInd(405869b0,40586974) ret=405b2e6b tid=08065a10 trace:ole:VariantCopyInd (0x405869b0, 0x40586974) trace:ole:VariantCopy (0x405869b0, 0x40586974) trace:ole:VariantClear (0x405869b0) Ret oleaut32.VariantCopyInd() retval=00000000 ret=405b2e6b tid=08065a10 Call oleaut32.VariantChangeTypeEx(40586968,405869b0,00000400,00000000,00000003) ret=405b301c tid=08065a10 trace:ole:VariantInit (0x4058685c),stub trace:ole:VariantChangeTypeEx (0x40586968, 0x405869b0 (11), 1024, 0, 3),stub trace:ole:VariantClear (0x40586968) trace:ole:VarI4FromBool ( -1, 0x40586970 ), stub trace:ole:VariantClear (0x4058685c) Ret oleaut32.VariantChangeTypeEx() retval=00000000 ret=405b301c tid=08065a10 err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception. I have changed the trace slightly, the 11 listed for the VariantChangeTypeEx shows that the original type is a boolean. The call is trying to change a boolean (11) into an integer (3). The changes in include/wtypes.h are the important ones. Replacing the new DECIMAL type by typedef struct tagDEC { BYTE aa[2]; } DECIMAL; get rid of the crash. If I make the byte array 16 bytes long, same crash as the current Wine behaviour. If I make it 10 bytes long, access violation. If I make it 8 bytes long, it works too. Could the DECIMAL type be a pointer to the real data ?? Gerard