>I get the message "Sign extended character passed to StrChr()" after about
>100,000 Gremlins events (w/OS 4.0). I've looked in the 3.5 source and see
>one check for an extended character that will result in the message "bad chr
>passed." I can't recreate this outside of Gremlins.
>
>Does anyone know what causes this message and/or what a sign extended char
>is? Is it char > 0x00FF?
The archives should contain a fairly recent discussion of how sign
extension can accidentally happen. Note that the Char type is a
signed 8-bit value, while a WChar is an unsigned 16-bit value.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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