I made the mistake of using the same variable name _offset for the
temporary variable in WORD16 and WORD32, and for the one in BYTE which
the other two use as a subroutine - meaning that the declaration on
the first line of BYTE read 'size_t _offset = _offset+3' or similar,
in which the RHS _offset referred to the newly declared LHS one rather
than to the one in the outer scope.
WORD32 had the additional goof that I had declared its return-value
accumulator variable as a 16- rather than 32-bit integer due to
copy-and-paste error.
Between those two mistakes - surely introduced at the last minute when
I was doing code cleanup on this source base, because I know this
function was working OK before then - I had completely broken the
extraction of version strings from PE executables.
At the moment it only tests MsiGetFileVersion, because that's the
piece I just found a problem in, but I could easily extend it to have
convenient command-line test rigs for other parts of this setup too.