Why do my CRT-free applications intermittently crash on startup?

Question

For example, this application:

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

#include 

int __stdcall NoCRTMain(void) 
{
    int result;

    PWSTR lpCmdLine         


        

Answer 1

A year on, I'm finally confident in claiming that Hans' suggestion has worked perfectly: if the application is built with the /DYNAMICBASE:NO and /FIXED:YES options, the problem does not occur.