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FIX: Function Returning Double Followed by Numeric Label Causes Crash

Article ID: 257783

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q257783

SYMPTOMS

If you have a line of code that calls a function which returns a double data type and that line of code is followed by a line of code with a numeric label, you receive an Access Violation when you try to build the executable file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a new ActiveX EXE project. Class1 is added by default.

Paste the following code into the code window of Class1:

Option Explicit

Public Sub Test()
  Debug.Assert (CDbl(Now) = 1.1)
10:     MsgBox "Hey"
End Sub

Save the project.
From the File menu, choose Make Project1.exe, and note that an Access Violation error occurs.

Additional query words: sp4

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvs600sp4fix kbvs600sp5fix KB257783

Microsoft KB Archive/257783

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