From: "News" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: RSXNTDJ Compiler Error (*.RC) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:14:07 +0200 Organization: CyberCity Internet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <6jhil1$ckk$1@news.cybercity.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: msx-04-2-8.1033.cybercity.dk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk When I try to compile a .rc file with grc, it tries to locate cpp but canīt find it. Do I need it ? and where can I find it ? Thanks Mikkel gpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Destination: "John M. Aldrich" From: Gruber Gerhard Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:02:31 -0400: >Gerhard Gruber wrote: >> >> That's not exactly true. If you use the MFC (recommended by MS) then you get >> hundreds of codelines calling assert() to ensure that there is no null >> pointer. >> >> I can't believe it! I just wrote a mail that defends MS. Must getting sick or >> the heat affects my brain. :) > >I guess that post must have been tongue-in-cheek. After all, *0 is a >NULL-pointer dereference and all the asserts in the world won't catch >it. :-) However, cwsdpmi bombs on it while Windows just keeps on >truckin'... In this case it is true. But I had a problem where I had a NULL pointer for a file and gcc let it run without complaint wheras MFC crashed on the same code. The only reason I used MFC was because I hunted another bug and that made me note that bug as well. -- Bye, Gerhard email: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at Spelling corrections are appreciated.