visual-c++-6

I am trying to add enhancements to a 4 year old VC++ 6.0 program. The debug build runs from the command line but not in the debugger: it crashes with an access violation inside printf(). If I skip the printf, then it crashes in malloc() (called from within fopen()) and I can't skip over that. This means I cannot run in the debugger and have to rely on the old printf statements to see what's going on. This obviously makes it a lot harder. Any idea why printf() and malloc() would fail when running under the VC++ debugger? I am no good at this low level stuff! Here is the call stack after the

I have a number of VC 6.0 projects (dsps) which build into dlls which don't have resource files. Any idea how to add resources into an existing project? The project is due for a major release shortly and I want to add a fileversion to those dlls currently lacking one. The dlls will be recompilied before release so I'm just trying to make these dsps like all the others I've inherited with this project (that do have a file and product version etc so that we can easily tell exactly what is running on a customer's machine. One answer : Create an *.rc and resource.h file (copy from another project?

After adding the /TSAWARE linker flag to one of my projects (Visual Studio 6), I was surprised to find a new section in the PE file (.idata). If I don't set the flag, the imports are merged into .rdata. To illustrate the "problem" we start out with a simple console program: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; } and compile with: cl /Og /O1 /GF /WX /c main.c Then link with link /MACHINE:IX86 /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /RELEASE /OUT:a.exe main.obj link /MACHINE:IX86 /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /RELEASE /OUT:b.exe /TSAWARE main.obj Let's compare the dumpbin output: Dump of file a

I want to convert CString to string. (Yup. I know what am I doing. I know the returned string will be incorrect, if CString value range is outside ANSI, but That's Is OK!) The following code will work under VC2008. std::string Utils::CString2String(const CString& cString) { // Convert a TCHAR string to a LPCSTR CT2CA pszConvertedAnsiString (cString); // construct a std::string using the LPCSTR input std::string strStd (pszConvertedAnsiString); return strStd; } But VC6 doesn't have CT2CA macro. How I can make the code to work as well in both VC6 and VC2008? Microsoft says that CT2CA replaces