Re: VC BUG

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:27:13 -0400
Message-ID:
<uSCMLu8FIHA.284@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
"Bob" <libo@strongwish.com> wrote in message
news:uGFjDR5FIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl

The code has problem, but comiplie ok! link ok

void CMyDialog::OnOK()
{
   extern CButton m_DLG1_IDOK_n; //m_DLG1_IDOK_n not exist
   CButton m_DLG1_IDOK;

   if(m_DLG1_IDOK_n.GetCheck == m_DLG1_IDOK.GetCheck) // Call function
without (), like vb
   return;

CDialog::OnOK();
}


Yes, looks like a bug. Almost fixed in VC7.1, fully fixed in VC8. The
code shouldn't compile. Consider:

struct X {
 int f() {return 1;}
};

int main()
{
 X x1;
 X x2;
 return (x1.f == x2.f);
}

This compiles in VC6 but not VC7.1. Looking at disassembly, x1.f is
treated as &X::f. The function is not actually called.

VC7.1 produces an error for the example above, but successfully compiles
this:

struct X {
 int f() {return 1;}
};

int main()
{
 X x;
 x.f;
 return 0;
}

It does however produce a warning: warning C4551: function call missing
argument list. VC8 reports an error on both examples.
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