based on the fact that the crash never seemed to have happened with default screen resolutions and also inspired by the only other getmem usage in the code I came up with this simple solution which seems to work just fine. I do not understand why getmem seems to need this, but well - feel free to explain.

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/*

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 * Copyright (C) 2008 Remko Troncon

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 */

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#ifndef AUTOUPDATER_H

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#define AUTOUPDATER_H

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class AutoUpdater

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{

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    public:

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        virtual ~AutoUpdater();

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        virtual void checkForUpdates() = 0;

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};

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#endif