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- Path: netcom.com!marnold
- From: marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- Subject: Re: BC++ 5.0 IDE woes
- Message-ID: <marnoldDpDq2F.4ME@netcom.com>
- Keywords: BCC 5.0 IDE GPF
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- References: <dpayne.828477660@rainbow> <4juboi$52c@druid.borland.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 07:56:39 GMT
- Sender: marnold@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) writes:
-
- >In article <dpayne.828477660@rainbow>, dpayne@rainbow.rmii.com says...
- >>
- >>One huge problem I am experiencing with BC++ 5.0 (with patch) that I
- >>haven't seen posted is the terminal error while simply editing a source
- >>file in the IDE. I have experienced numerous (very frustrating) abends
- >>of the IDE while editing the source. At first I thought maybe there
- >>was a problem with the Win95 patch (from Microsoft), but the same error
- >>occurs in NT3.51 as well. Occasionally, the compile process will just hang
- >>as well.
-
- >Nope, haven't heard of this broad a problem. Does this happen on a "clean"
- >system, with no other applications running? If not, there's some interaction
- >with some other application, and it would be a great help if you can track down
- >which application it is.
-
- Borland C++ has been randomly causing GPFs for me while doing routine
- editor operations since version 4.0, on a wide variety of system
- configurations. I currently have version 4.52 and most of the time, I
- run only the IDE (and stock Windows applets).
-
- These GPFs usually seem to occur in conjunction with selecting text or
- using the clipboard. The exact same problem seems to have existed in
- all versions I've ever used since 4.0. I can't give an exact
- reproduction scenario, since it doesn't happen all the time, and it's
- difficult to remember the exact keys that we had just pressed when it
- happens. The one consistent theme that I do remember, is that it
- always happens when working near the end of text in an editor window.
-
- I finally just accepted it as a bug that wasn't going away. If it *is*
- some basic bug in the Borland C++ editor code, I'm not really surprised
- it made it into 5.0, since apparently no one at Borland caught it going
- from 4.0 all the way 4.52. However, since 5.0 is supposed to be such a
- rework of the IDE, it seems unlikely the bug could have persisted.
-
- Still, I can't imagine, if the programmers at Borland use Borland C++
- themselves, why someone at Borland in the IDE group hasn't come across
- this bug themselves while programming during the last two years.
-
- Maybe they all use Brief or something.
-
- Regards,
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