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Subject: Re: MSVC code gen bug?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:50:45 12/31/01

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On December 31, 2001 at 17:42:29, Scott Gasch wrote:

>Sorry to flood the board here with this thread but.. if I make the routine in
>question's calling convension not FASTCALL it the code works too.  I've been
>over this code about 100 times now and I think this is a bug in the compiler.
>Any thought on how likely this is?  Am I dumb to just remove the FASTCALL and
>pretend it's working fine?  Am I missing an oppertunity to find a nasty bug in
>my code?  This problem doesn't make sense to me and I'd welcome the thoughts of
>more experience programmers here...  I'm 99% sure this is a compiler issue; am I
>insane?

Try to create a minimal test problem that reproduces the bug.
Half the time, I find the problem in this way.
If you can't reproduce it with a minimized problem, it's probably a side effect
from something else.



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