Application Verifier reports access violation in call to ShellExecuteEx

Question

Short Version

Application Verifier says there is an access violation when running the code:

var
   shi: TShellExecuteInfo;
begin
   shi := Default(         


        

Answer 1

As @RaymondChen said, it's a bug in Windows 10.

• I only encountered it because Application Verifier caught it.
• it's a one-in-a-million chance that you'd actually ever encounter it in the wild

Raymond's too modest to accept reputation; so i use his answer as my own.