Visual Studio compiler error from comment. Yep just happened

[Mind Calamity]

Excuse the horrible title, but what the hell just happened ?

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Apparently commented out code can still cause errors.

Wrapping it in a multi-line comment fixes it tho: http://prntscr.com/5p24zo

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[Zonder]

My guess is debug symbols aren't up to date, it usually knows this though and indicates the source/pdb isn't up to date

[TheSHEEEP]

U wot m8?!

[Mind Calamity]

I did a clean/rebuild a few times too, nothing helped, I guess VC++ has a drinking problem.

[Klaim]

Did you report this bug?

[Xavyiy]

Something similar happened to me some months ago at work.

The problem was a copy-pasted code from an internal website, that somehow included some hidden(non visible) & non-valid characters, driving crazy the compiler.

Try to copy-paste your code to a new notepad document, remove the file, re-recreate it and finally copy-paste the code from notepad. It worked for me, after some minutes of "WTF is going on here" .

Cheers!

[Klaim]

Something similar happened to me some months ago at work.

The problem was a copy-pasted code from an internal website, that somehow included some hidden(non visible) & non-valid characters, driving crazy the compiler.

Try to copy-paste your code to a new notepad document, remove the file, re-recreate it and finally copy-paste the code from notepad. It worked for me, after some minutes of "WTF is going on here" .

Cheers!

Ah yes I got something similar at some point.

[al2950]

Something similar happened to me some months ago at work.

The problem was a copy-pasted code from an internal website, that somehow included some hidden(non visible) & non-valid characters, driving crazy the compiler.

Try to copy-paste your code to a new notepad document, remove the file, re-recreate it and finally copy-paste the code from notepad. It worked for me, after some minutes of "WTF is going on here" .

Cheers!

Ah yes I got something similar at some point.

Me too! Note to self, never copy & paste code! Still do it though

[Kojack]

In particular, powerpoint and pdf like to modify symbols like plus, minus, single and double quotes into ones that look almost identical in the font but are different ascii codes so VS doesn't understand them.

[Zonder]

ah yest the old joke of changing a semicolon to a greek question mark

[Mind Calamity]

That's just evil

Anyways I didn't copy code from any documents, it was from another source file, at least the pixel skip calculation was from there, but that shouldn't happen as it's still plaintext.

I also noticed a bug with undo, it happens almost always if you undo a lot of stuff, and then redo it you get a huge mess of re-arranged/broken code, I'm not sure if this is related to Visual Assist or if it's a pure Visual Studio bug.

I'll look into reporting the comment bug, but I don't know how to reproduce it, so I doubt it'd be of much use.