Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 13:12:24 11/27/01
Has anybody experienced bugs from MS Visual C 6.0 when programming in C? A couple of times I have observed weird behaviors that after a lot of debugging I had to conclude that there was something weird with the compiler or optimizer. For instance, I include a printf() to debug part of the program and that was never printed. It just skipped that instruction. I had no idea what it was because I just rewrote the function to make it work. Most of the time I think that I am wrong (most of the time I am wrong) but there are some things that do not make sense. Now I am facing a problem that probably is me, but it look very suspicious. I'll comment on that when I am sure I spent enough time on it. I know that the probability to find bugs on the compiler or the libraries is not zero. Some time ago I found something like this in one of the header files provided with the libraries (I think it was time.h) #define SOMETHING CONSTANT+4 when it should be #define SOMETHING (CONSTANT+4) Forgetting the () is really bad. I was hunting ghosts for while until I decided that there was nothing wrong with my code. Does anybody experience weird behaviors from this compiler? I know that I have improve my "C", I just want to know whether I am crazy or not :-) Regards, Miguel
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