My project builds fine under Debug but when I try to build as release it compiles and links but crashes when run. Unhandled exception at 0x0040362e in katana4.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xfeedfafa. I've never had a problem like this. I think it has to do with SDL/OGL for video because when I traced the problem back through my builds the build before video works fine. I'm using the fulid studios memory manager - the "0xfeedfafa" shows that some manager or another is messing with my memory, but when I search the source there is no string "fafa". What could cause this? My source is somewhat large and I have no idea what parts are causing this. I recall seeing "stack corruption" at some point during my debugging- what can cause this, and how did I pull it off? In debug build, fluid studios memory manager says I dont have any leaks. Thanks

pointers... the only denotation of vector I know of is std::vector, which has nothing to do with memory management...

I fixed my problem - i was depending on assert in a release build (stray pointers all over the place).

I'm still confused as to how my pointers got initialized to 0xfeedfafa (Kernel land? Maybe, but the humanness is too much of a coincidence for me, especially over and over). Any ideas?

Fruny: What do you mean, std::vector does MM for you? Thats news to me. Can you explain a little or link me to a short explanation?

Much appreciated.
Dustin