FIX: C0000005 Fatal Error During Build w/ Invalid Preprocessors

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b

SYMPTOMS

Building a project that contains an invalid preprocessor directive causes an error. Depending on the version of Visual FoxPro being used, one of the following error messages appears:

Visual FoxPro 3.x for Windows displays a message box with the following message:

Internal Consistency Error

The application "Microsoft Visual FoxPro" has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 2 occurred.

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

An application error has occurred and an application errorlog is being generated.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior occurs when a preprocessor directive references an object that is read-only.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new project.



2. Add a new main prg using the following code:




#UNDEF _DEBUG
#IF Application.ActiveProject.Debug
   #DEFINE _DEBUG
#ENDIF 

3. Build an application from the project.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbMAC kbProjManager kbVFp300bbug kbVFp500abug kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox
Version : MACINTOSH:3.0b; WINDOWS:3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug