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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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GeneralVC 2003 & 2005 compilo bug... Pin
achainard22-Apr-10 21:47
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Test App : MFC dialog typed (unmanaged)

Code:
char szModel1 [256] = { "REQ$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$" };
size_t sizeModel1 = strlen ( szModel1 );

char szModel2 [256] = { "REQ?-????-????-????-????-????" };
size_t sizeModel2 = strlen ( szModel2 );


Result on debugger on VC2003 & VC2005, I don't test it on 2008 & 2010 if some one can try...
+ szModel1 0x0012fc10 "REQ$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$-$$$$" char [256]
+ szModel2 0x0012fafc "REQ?-??~??~??~??~????" char [256]
sizeModel1 29 unsigned int
sizeModel2 21 unsigned int

The content and the size of the string is bad with "??-" sequence...
Strange Confused | :confused:
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