Fancy use of exception handling in FormatMessage leads to repeated "discovery" of security flaw

Every so often, somebody "discovers" an alleged security vulnerability in the Format­Message function. You can try it yourself:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

char buf[2048];
char extralong[128*1024];

int __cdecl main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 memset(extralong, 'x', 128 * 1024 - 1);
 DWORD_PTR args[] = { (DWORD_PTR)extralong };
 FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_STRING |
               FORMAT_MESSAGE_ARGUMENT_ARRAY, "%1", 0, 0,
               buf, 2048, (va_list*)args);
 return 0;
}

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