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From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Conquer 4.2 INFINITE SPILL MICROSOFT CC ERROR
Message-ID: <KAYVAN.89Aug6120509@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 89 19:05:11 GMT
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Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc.
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I had this problem with NetHack3.0 for some files.

It seems that the Microsoft Compiler's register allocation is amazingly
buggy (f**ked up, if you ask me!!!).

Nethack contains many functions which had the form:

function()
{
	register int a; register int b; register int c;...
[...]
}

On some of the files, I got the infinite spill message.
My workaround was to include the line:

#define register

in the source files that complained and it compiled and ran beautifully.

			---Kayvan
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