* An ongoing debate between andrew clarke and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 BR>> If I try to build Golded+ (github.com 2018-07-10 Download) with
 BR>> MSVC6 I get compile error 2 on line 129 of gdirposx.cpp. If I
 BR>> revert this code back to the last source backup I have for
 BR>> Golded+ (sf.net CVS) as "long" vice "intptr_t" at
 BR>> the beginning of line 129, it works all the way thru with no
 BR>> obvious problems reading or writing live messages with the
 BR>> resultant binary GedWin.Exe.
 BR>> I assume that there is probably more to this error than meets the
 BR>> eye, so I will wait for clarification before I distribute
 BR>> anything. 

 ac> intptr_t was introduced with the C99 standard which MSVC6 didn't
 ac> support.
 ac> And at some point since MSVC6 was released, Microsoft changed the
 ac> return value of _findfirst() from long to intptr_t.
 ac> At the start of gdirposx.cpp you could add something like:
 ac> #if _MSC_VER <= 1200
 ac> typedef long intptr_t;
 ac> #endif
 ac> Where 1200 is the internal version number for the C/C++ compiler
 ac> provided with MSVC6.

Thank you kindly  I will add your code in soonest!


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