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TID101518 (LCONV1) - Issue: Incorrect Pascal declaration of LCONV.Date format

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LCONV.Date_format is incorrectly declared as 'char' in NWLOCALE.INC (SDK vol 13/14, probably also in vol 15), while it should be an 'nint' like in the NWLOCALE.H. Since these types have different sizes this may result in memory overwrites and unspecific program crashes or errors. Until this is fixed in the headers, please redefine LCONV.date_format as 'nint' in NWLOCALE.INC and recompile.

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Issue: Incorrect Pascal declaration of LCONV.Date_format

LCONV.Date_format is incorrectly declared as 'char' in NWLOCALE.INC (SDK vol 13/14, 
probably also in vol 15), while it should be an 'nint' like in the NWLOCALE.H. Since these 
types have different sizes this may result in memory overwrites and unspecific program 
crashes or errors. Until this is fixed in the headers, please redefine LCONV.date_format as 
'nint' in NWLOCALE.INC and recompile.

--devsup

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