EddieDee

I've been using C++ Builder since v1, and until Windows 7 broke my copy of C++ Builder 3 I used it regularly. So I recently discovered Embarcadero has the community edition of C++ Builder, and so I downloaded it. Unfortunately it is a convoluted mess to me, as I HATE using unicode strings! Give me the old days! :-) But I've managed to convert most of my code over now, but ran into an odd problem. I have a few lines of code that don't seem to be working. Here's an example: AnsiString s; s = Form1->InputString; s += L" - Some Extra Text."; When I set a breakpoint on the next line of code, then examine s, I see: > s { ???? } instead of what should be there! In this case, InputString is an AnsiString that contains the text "Start Here". If I examine that variable I see: > InputString { "Start Here" } So, shouldn't I see: > InputString { "Start Here - Some Extra Text" } when I examine s? This makes no sense to me! Especially when I move the breakpoint to the concatenation line and examine s before the "Extra Text" is added. As it still shows { ???? } when I evaluate it! Any ideas?

That's what I'm quickly finding out! All that the Clang compilers have done is forced me to modify code that really never needed modifying! I never realized there was a way to switch it back to the "classic" world until yesterday. But it's still light years better than using Visual Studio! :-)

While digging further into this today, I discovered that if I switched the compiler to the 'classic' bcc32 compiler the debugger issue went away and I was able to see the evaluation of the variable without any issues. So it seems that this is a "feature" of the non-classic compiler. True. And I did try it both with and without a wide literal string. I got the same results both ways.