FastMM4 says "footer is corrupt"

Question

I have this feature in our Delphi 7 application that worked very well until I included FastMM4 v4.99 in the project. After turning on, FastMM4 raised the following error message: "FastMM detected an error during the FreeMem operation. The block footer was damaged." Execution stops at the FreeMem line.

function BinaryFieldToArrayOfWord( aBinaryField   : TVarBytesField;
                                   out aArrValues : TArrWord ) : Boolean;
var
  p : Pointer;
begin
  if not aBinaryField.IsBlob then
  begin
    GetMem( p, aBinaryField.DataSize );     
    try
      if aBinaryField.GetData( p ) then         
      begin
        // do something
      end;
    finally
      FreeMem( p, aBinaryField.DataSize );
    end;
  end; // if
end;

At first I thought that there should be an error in the function, but it is almost the same as in the example with the TField.GetData example in the Delphi 7 help:

{ Retrieve the "raw" data from Field1 }
with Field1 do
begin
  if not IsBlob  { this does not work for BLOB fields }
  begin
    { Allocate space }
    GetMem(MyBuffer, DataSize);
    try
      if not GetData(MyBuffer) then
         MessageDlg(DisplayName + ' is NULL', mtInformation, [mbOK], 0)
      else 
         { Do something with the data };
    finally
      { Free the space }
      FreeMem(MyBuffer, DataSize);
    end;
  end;
end;

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    GetMem( p, aBinaryField.DataSize + 2 );

    FreeMem( p, aBinaryField.DataSize + 2 );

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  procedure TfrmMain_PBC_TH.btnDEBUGClick(Sender: TObject);
  type
    TArrBytes = array of Byte;  
  var
    p       : Pointer;
    qryTest : TADOQuery;
  begin
    qryTest := TADOQuery.Create( Application );
    try
      // The type of the TQM_BinaryData.BinData column in the MSSQL database is a       varbinary(7900). 
      // Load the #168 binary data record. It contains exactly 7900 bytes, and the value of each byte is 255
      qryTest.Connection := MainConn;
      qryTest.SQL.Add('SELECT [BinData] FROM [TQM_BinaryData] WHERE [Id] = 168');
      qryTest.Open;

      // Allocate the memory block for this.
      GetMem( p, qryTest.FieldByName('BinData').DataSize );
      // DataSize is 7902 because all TVarBytesFields have 2 byte prefix in Delphi, containing the data length.
      // So the size of the allocated memory block is 7902 bytes - we are correct so far.
      try
        // Values of the first four bytes beyond the end of the memory block (memory thrash at this point) before GetData:
        // TArrBytes(p)[7902] = 96
        // TArrBytes(p)[7903] = 197
        // TArrBytes(p)[7904] = 219
        // TArrBytes(p)[7905] = 43

        // Critical point: get the data from the field with the Delphi GetData method
        qryTest.FieldByName('BinData').GetData( p );

        // Values after GetData:
        // TArrBytes(p)[0]    = 220    TArrBytes(p)[0] and TArrBytes(p)[1] contains the length of the binary data
        // TArrBytes(p)[1]    = 30     it is correct as 30 * 256 + 220 = 7900
        // TArrBytes(p)[2]    = 255    actual data starts
        // TArrBytes(p3[2]    = 255    
        // ...
        // TArrBytes(p)[7900] = 255
        // TArrBytes(p)[7901] = 255    actual data ends
        // TArrBytes(p)[7902] = 0      changed from 96!
        // TArrBytes(p)[7903] = 0      changed from 197!
        // TArrBytes(p)[7904] = 219    no change
        // TArrBytes(p)[7905] = 43     no change
      finally
        // Here FastMM4 throws the block footer corrupt error because GetData modified the 2 bytes after the allocated memory block 
        FreeMem( p );
      end;

      qryTest.Close;
    finally
      qryTest.Free;
    end;
  end;

:

    @FillChar(???,???,???)
    TDataSet.DataConvert($7D599770,$12F448,$7D51F7F0,True)
    VarToBuffer
    TCustomADODataSet.GetFieldData($7D599770,$7D51F7F0,True)
    TField.GetData($7D51F7F0,True)
    TfrmMain_PBC_TH.btnDEBUGClick($7FF7A380)
    TControl.Click
    TButton.Click

Answer 1

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