Article ID: 172256 - Last Review: February 24, 2005 - Revision: 1.1 FIX: RISC: CByte Doesn't Fail on Negative Values in Native ExeThis article was previously published under Q172256 SYMPTOMS
In a native executable, passing a negative value to the CByte function does not generate an error. It should cause an Overflow error.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2. For additional information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 170365
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/170365/EN-US/
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INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why
For a list of the Visual Basic 5.0 bugs that were fixed in the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
171554
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171554/EN-US/
)
INFO: Visual Basic 5.0 Fixes in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2
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This problem does not occur in the IDE or in P-Code executables. This problem does not occur in the Intel version of the product regardless of how the application is compiled. Once the RISC version of Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 is installed, code such as:
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