[aus.mac] Weird THINK C problems

JON@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) (08/09/90)

G'day Net,
	Here's a beauty I had happen to me the other day.  Using THINK C 3.01
upgraded to 3.02 using the updater for 6-8 months no problems.  Yesterday
I went home, fired up the mac, started modifying a project by opening a new
file to enter functions.  I typed in 10-12 small functions and used Check
Syntax to find my spelling mistakes :-).  I get 'Syntax error' on line 1.
The line was; int PopUp_createMenu(p,l,t,r,b).  Hmm, nothing looks to wierd
there.  I changed this to abc(), and still got a 'Syntax error'.
Hmm, something funny is going on here.  There are no include files so that
can be discounted.  I chucked in CMarker to have a look at the function 
names, more as a whim than anything else.  The first function came up as
		W`abc()
Very Unusual, no wonder there was a syntax error. I reinstalled Think C.
No fix. I reinstalled 6.04 -> No fix. I installed 6.03 that fixed it.
6.03 doesn't have the 6-7 DA's that I was using so that could be a problem.
The DA's have been in there for as long as I can remember with no problems.
Think C was creating windows with junks characters at the start of the window.  
These characters were invisible and non-removeable.  What's the answer
people?

My full config is: Platinum Mac Plus, 67Mb CMS drive, 2.5Mb RAM.  A couple
of INIT's (SuperClock,Pyro!,OnCue, INIT CDev, all well behaved stuff)
I'm running UniFinder and System 6.04 (when the erros occurred) and now
have dropped back to 6.03.

I'm not planning to try anything until I've finished the contract I'm
currently working on. Everything is working fine now, but I have some nagging
doubts.

PS Everything is Virus free, I used Disinfectant to check my system and it
came up clean.

aTdHvAaNnKcSe


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n_hays@vaxa.cc.uwa.oz.au (08/11/90)

In article <11088@wehi.dn.mu.oz>, JON@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) writes
> 
> My full config is: Platinum Mac Plus, 67Mb CMS drive, 2.5Mb RAM.  A couple
> of INIT's (SuperClock,Pyro!,OnCue, INIT CDev, all well behaved stuff)
> I'm running UniFinder and System 6.04 (when the erros occurred) and now
> have dropped back 
I don't know what Think C is like but the manual to Think Pascal 3.0 warns
that Superclock "plays havoc" with the Think debugging environment.