Thread: MS VS and the infinite while loop

My friend was writing a very simple 32console app in visual C++ to count the number of a's in a sentence. He had a while loop in there but it kept getting stuck in the loop. After completely stripping down the program it looked something like this...

PHP Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
main()
{
int i=0;
while(i<100)
{
i++;
cout<<i;
}
return 0
} 


Nothing special. Added the cout to see what was up with the iterator...Hit execute and the console gives us this
12222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 222222222222222... etc.
It is a bug Microsoft is aware of and they give instructions on how to edit Visual studio to correct the bug(no patch?)
It seems like a bug that could potentially cause some serious headaches for someone who might not know of the bug.

It works just fine for me on MSVC++ 6 Enterprise. Btw, you forgot a semicolon after your return statement.

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

main()
{
    int i=0;
    while(i<100)
    {
        i++;
        cout<<i;
    }
    return 0;
}

-Prelude

It's not something that happens predictably. It's a seemingly random bug. To fix it on an occurence just delete the while loop and type it in again. I just thought I'd mention it since it's a particularly difficult thing to figure out when it does happen sinze it produces no syntax error message.

I had the same trouble in MSVC stuff would act crazy or not work right till i retyped or copied and pasted THE EXACT SAME CODE! thats one of many reaqsons i switched...