Given that an application want to create a QCoreApplication on demand and dispose it immediately after it is used

when a second instance of the QCoreApplication is created

then the application sometimes crash.

The crash is hard to reproduce since it is dependent on the memory layout of the application when the second instance of QCoreApplication  is created.

However, after debugging the issue it is assumed that  the root cause is a stale static pointer (procName)  set at the previous instance of QCoreApplicationPrivate.

The produced in 5.6.1.

It is assumed that it persists in 5.9.0 although not reproduced there.

QString QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath()

..

    if (d->argc) {
        static const char *procName = d->argv[0]; <- Stale on second QCoreApplication instance
        if (qstrcmp(procName, d->argv[0]) != 0) { <- Crash
            // clear the cache if the procname changes, so we reprocess it.
            QCoreApplicationPrivate::clearApplicationFilePath();
            procName = d->argv[0];
        }
    }

     ucrtbased.dll!strcmp() Line 105    Unknown
     Qt5Cored.dll!qstrcmp(const char * str1, const char * str2) Line 262    C++
>    Qt5Cored.dll!QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath() Line 2127    C++
     Qt5Cored.dll!QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() Line 2097    C++
     Qt5Cored.dll!QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::StandardLocation type) Line 272    C++
     Qt5Cored.dll!QStandardPaths::locate(QStandardPaths::StandardLocation type, const QString & fileName, QFlags<enum QStandardPaths::LocateOption> options) Line 411    C++
     Qt5Cored.dll!QLoggingRegistry::init() Line 297    C++
     Qt5Cored.dll!QCoreApplicationPrivate::init() Line 782    C++
     Qt5Guid.dll!QGuiApplicationPrivate::init() Line 1269    C++
     Qt5Widgetsd.dll!QApplicationPrivate::init() Line 580    C++
     Qt5Widgetsd.dll!QApplication::QApplication(int & argc, char * * argv, int _internal) Line 571    C++