Article ID: 104649
Article Last Modified on 7/5/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q104649
SYMPTOMS
Compiling the sample code below from the Visual Workbench in Visual C++ version 1.0 or an MS-DOS prompt under Windows causes the compiler to hang with no error messages being displayed. If the sample code is compiled under MS-DOS alone the following error occurs:
Compiling the sample code with the compiler supplied with Visual C++ for Windows version 1.5 causes the compiler to generate the following error message:
Compiling the sample code with the compiler supplied with Visual C++ for Windows NT causes the following error message:
CAUSE
The code being compiled is missing a closing brace on the switch statement. This may also occur in other situations where a closing brace is missing. For example, if the closing brace closes a function that is the last function in a file, the same errors occur. To illustrate, remove the closing brace from the CStroke::FinishStroke() member function in SCRIBDOC.CPP in step 5 of the scribble tutorial.
RESOLUTION
Fix the code by adding the missing closing brace.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in C/C++ version 9.0, included with Visual C++ 32-bit Edition version 2.0.
MORE INFORMATION
Sample Code
/* Compile options needed: none
*/
#include <afxwin.h> // MFC core and standard components
class CTestApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
CTestApp();
};
CTestApp::CTestApp()
{
}
CTestApp NEAR theApp;
LPSTR FunctionName (char* pszFileName)
{
DWORD dwMaxLength;
unsigned int nChars;
LPSTR LpSrc, lpDst, lpNew;
static char szPath [_MAX_PATH];
while (*LpSrc)
{
switch (*LpSrc)
{
case ('\\'):
case ('/'):
*lpDst++ = *LpSrc++;
nChars = 0;
break ;
case ('<'):
case ('>'):
case ('"'):
case ('|'):
ASSERT (FALSE);
LpSrc++;
break;
default:
if (nChars < dwMaxLength)
*lpDst++ = *LpSrc++;
else
LpSrc++;
nChars++;
break;
// Without the following closing brace for the switch
// statement, the compiler issues the C1001 error or hangs
// instead of generating the appropriate syntax error message.
//}
}
return lpNew;
}
Additional query words: 1.00 1.50 8.00 8.00c curly
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