Initialize stack variables to unusual value -> exception 693

[Vit_M_]

I use Windows XP SP2, MS Visual studio 2003 and IVF 9.0.2945.2003. I have a program that works fine, it does what it is supposed to. When I set the "Initialize stack variables to an unusual value" option to "YES", the program crashes with - severe (172) (which is OS problem) and exception code 693 (MSDN says: "debugger got CTRL+C" -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/system_error_codes__500-999_.asp
It seems strange to me, I haven't pressed ctrl+c. When I debug the program with the 'Initialize...' option set to "NO", it works fine. Have anyone encountered such behavior?
Any suggestions why is thit happening?
Thank you

Vit M

[Steven_L_Intel1]

That's very curious. This particular option is rather useless at present - it was SUPPOSED to set floating point values to NaN, but that's not how it was implemented. I have an open issue to development on that.

Nevertheless, I can't explain the results you're seeing and it may be a compiler bug. Please report this to Intel Premier Support and attach an example that demonstrates the problem. By the way, the version number you report isn't the compiler version, which will be of the form w_fc_c_9.0.xxx. You reported the Visual Studio integration version. And yes, the compiler version should be shown in Help..About and that too has been requested.