Boost::Program_Options unhandled exception due to access violation

I have a program that runs fine in DEBUG mode but in RELEASE mode I get an unhandled exception due to an access violation. I'm pretty sure it's not due to null pointers. Here is the call stack:

msvcr90d.dll!memchr(unsigned char * buf=0x0000002c, unsigned char chr='', unsigned long cnt=1243588)  Line 80         Asm
msvcp90d.dll!std::char_traits<char>::find(const char * _First=0x72656d6f, unsigned int _Count=15, const char & _Ch=',')  Line 590 + 0x15 bytes     C++
msvcp90d.dll!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::_DebugHeapAllocator<char> >::find(const char * _Ptr=0x0012f9e4, unsigned int _Off=0, unsigned int _Count=1)  Line 1796 + 0x2d bytes  C++
Program.exe!boost::program_options::option_description::set_name()  + 0x61 bytes   C++
Program.exe!boost::program_options::option_description::option_description()  + 0x90 bytes C++
Program.exe!boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()()  + 0x58 bytes           C++
Program.exe!CommandLineInput(int count=2, char * * vector=0x003d3360)  Line 191 + 0xac bytes          C++
Program.exe!main(int argc=4233952, char * * argv=0x00000002)  Line 65535        C++
Program.exe!__tmainCRTStartup()  Line 582 + 0x17 bytes            C

Code:

namespace po = boost::program_options;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
        try
        {
            CommandInput (argc, argv); //get command line input
        }
        catch ( std::exception e )
        {
            std::cout << "WARNING: Exception is thrown" << std::endl;
            return 0;
        }
}

void CommandInput (int count, _TCHAR* vector[])
{
        po::options_description desc("Available Parameters");
        std::cout << "\n";
        desc.add_options()
            ("option1", po::value<std::string>(), "description1")
            ("option2", po::value<std::string>(), "description2")
            ("option3", po::value<std::string>(), "description3");

/*
The code breaks at the above line
*/
}

The exception reads:

Unhandled exception at 0x1026f09b (msvcr90d.dll) in Program.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x72656d6f.

Something's funky. Why is argc 4233952? Can you verify that that is not just an artifact of the debugger?

I suggest you rebuild your project, and if that doesn't fix it, then debug the program after everything is loaded and look at the "modules" window. You may be mixing incompatible libraries, e.g. release and debug versions of DLL's/EXE's.

Pay special attention to the CRT files that were loaded, msvcr90d, etc. Look at the file version info of all the CRT DLL's that were loaded and verify that they all have the same version.