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- From: Elmar Haag <elmarh@dyson.brisnet.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland Bug reports
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 06:25:36 GMT
- Organization: The Dyson Sphere - QLD,Aust,Earth,Sol...
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- >Hi borland Bug Administrator!
- >
- >Thanks for your reply!
- >
- >I attempted to pass this "Bug" report to Borland Support in Australia. They requested that I enter into a support aggrement with the=
- >m and pay them for letting them know about the defects (bugs)in their software they supply agains payment to their customers. I even=
- > paid once $50 for a support aggrement but as I never used it it must have been erased from the Sydney database. ID Number is ZZZ014=
- >574 Contract Number 1622.
- >
- >It appears that Borland now wants to make its customers pay for letting them know about the defects and inconsistencies in the softw=
- >are they sell.
- >
- >Please pass this message on to your current CEO or President.
- >
- >>Hi!
- >>
- >>Thank you for your e-mail. Please note that this is not a Technical Support
- >>e-mail address. Please direct your question to your nearest Borland
- >>Technical Support center.
- >>
- >>Bug Administrator
- >>
- >>At 03:57 PM 1/15/96 +1000, you wrote:
- >>>
- >>>I have the following problem:
- >>>It appears that MIDL.EXE creates some code not compatible with BCC 4.52 or
- >>>ANSI "C".
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>Definition in RPCNDR.H:
- >>>
- >>>typedef struct _MIDL_FORMAT_STRING
- >>>{
- >>> short Pad;
- >>> unsigned char Format[]; may be illegal in BC 4.52 but legal in MS
- >>>CL compiler???
- >>>} MIDL_FORMAT_STRING;
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>Code generated by MIDL.EXE in *_c.c:
- >>>
- >>>extern const MIDL_FORMAT_STRING __MIDLFormatString;
- >>>
- >>>extern const MIDL_FORMAT_STRING __MIDLProcFormatString;
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>static const MIDL_FORMAT_STRING MIDLProcFormatString =3D
- >>>{
- >>> 0,
- >>> {
- >>> 0x4d, /* FC_IN_PARAM */ /* Error during compile */
- >>> 0x1, /* 1 */
- >>>/* 2 */ 0x0, 0x0, /* Type Offset=3D0 */
- >>>/* 4 */ 0x5b, /* FC_END */
- >>> 0x5c, /* FC_PAD */
- >>> 0x0
- >>> }
- >>>};
- >>>
- >>>static const MIDL_FORMAT_STRING __MIDLFormatString =3D
- >>>{
- >>> 0,
- >>> {
- >>> 0x11, 0x8, /* FC_RP [simple_pointer] */ /*Error during
- >>>compile */
- >>>/* 2 */ 0x22, /* FC_C_CSTRING */
- >>> 0x5c, /* FC_PAD */
- >>> 0x0
- >>> }
- >>>};
- >>>
- >>>I tried to run the patch for BC++ 4.51, but no success.
- >>>
- >>>If you know of any fix, or have any other info, please let me know.
- >>>
- >>>Rgards
- >>>
- >>>Elmar Haag
- >>>Interworld Pty. Ltd.
- >>>22 Bowsprit Pde.
- >>>Cleveland 4163
- >>>Australia
- >>>
- >>>elmarh@dyson.brisnet.org.au
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>
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- >>
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