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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Possible (minor) Think C 4.0 debugger problem - one line funcs
Message-ID: <9193@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 89 07:32:34 GMT
References: <7726@viscous.sco.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <7726@viscous.sco.COM> jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) writes:
>Ran into a strange problem with the Think 4.0 debugger last night.  I was
>working on a styled text edit class as a subclass of CEditText, and had
>several stub routines that did nothing, declared like so:
>
>	void BStylEditText::InsertText(Ptr data, long length) {};
>
>with the entire function on one line.
>
>The problem was that when I stepped into the InsertText routine, the debugger
>indicated I was at a totally different point in my code, and then proceeded
>to crash in various mysterious ways.  Taking a closer look, I saw that the
>debugger wasn't putting triangles next to the one-line procedures.  Adding a
>return in between the curly braces made the problem go away, and the
>code now seems to be working fine.

I know it's a problem in THINK C 3.0, so I wouldn't be surprised if they
didn't fix it in 4.0.  (I've *got* to send in that registration card one
of these days!)  I frequently write routines that have executable C text
on the first post-parameter line of the routine, e.g.,

void foo()
{	bar();
...
}

and the THINK C debugger refuses to put a triangle on the bar() line.
I don't like the way the white space looks when I put the bracket on
a line by itself, but it seems that THINK C wants to force me to use
their preferred coding style.  This appears to be the same thing that
is biting you.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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