I dont know if anyone is still using VS2003, but I ran into a rather odd error today while building some stuff at the office (Its updated..):
struct PATTERN
{
PATTERN();
~PATTERN();
unsigned int m_offset;
void* m_data;
};
Thats about as vanilla as it gets in my world and 2003 was essentially coming back with the 1003 - internal compiler error message... which redirects you to paid support (I know you can get a refund if it turns out to be their fault.. but come on...).
After piddling around for a while it turns out the PATTERN is defined in wingdi.h as:
typedef LOGBRUSH PATTERN;
Clearly some namespacing or renaming would prevent this, but since it was esoteric (and the error message was so informative) I figured I would mention it here in case anyone else was running into something similar.
cheers.
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