"unable to initialize application 0xc000005"

Question

I wrote a wrapper for SFML that would allow me to replace the renderer for my game if I needed to. It worked. Then I refactored and while it still compiles, I now get "unable to initialize application 0xc000005" when running the compiled executable.

What would cause such an error? Google was unhelpful. I'm using Windows XP.

Answer 1

0xc000005 is ERROR_ACCESS_VIOLATION -- you've got a wild pointer somewhere.