QSettings + GDB = crash

Hi, I'm in a bit of a conundrum: using QSettings results in a crash under Windows XP, MinGW, Qt 4.7.

Code:

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#include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
#include <QtCore/QSettings>
 
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
 
    QSettings::setPath(QSettings::IniFormat, QSettings::SystemScope, "C:/folder");
 
    QSettings s("Org", "App");
    s.setValue("test", "value");
 
    return a.exec();
}

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This simple app throws an exception at line 9, ultimately pointing to some code in qsettings.cpp:

Code:

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if (SHGetSpecialFolderPath) {
        wchar_t path[MAX_PATH];
        SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, path, type, FALSE);
        result = QString::fromWCharArray(path);
    }

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At other times, creating a pointer to a QSettings object in the header file and later initializing it results in the same exception:

Code:

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// header of some class
QSettings *mySettings;
 
...
 
// constructor of class
mySettings = new QSettings();

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This doesn't happen on Windows, and the app runs fine when I don't use a debugger. I found a reported bug on http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/brows...s:all-tabpanel but it doesn't seem to be verified.