Moving from 6.04 to 6.10 - integer question

[BarryG]

I'm slowly moving from PureBasic 6.04 to 6.10 and boy am I getting lots of crashes with my Windows app.

The latest one was because a procedure had .l instead of .i in it for a variable.

This got me thinking: should I just do a search/replace of all .l with .i in my sources? Or just when I get a crash for a procedure or command?

[mk-soft]

You can use simple variables for everything.
But with structures, this must be controlled.

[BarryG]

Okay, thanks mk-soft! So keep structures as MSDN specifies them. Got it.

But, the variable I changed wasn't in a structure? It was this code:

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Define pName.i ; Was pName.l before, but this doesn't work with 6.10.

If *pIAcc\get_accValue(vt,@pName)=#S_OK
  *Value\s=Space(SysStringLen_(pName)) ; Crash if .l is used for pName.
  PokeS(@*Value\s,PeekS(pName))
  SysFreeString_(pName)
EndIf

[Fred]

You are getting back a pointer so it must be an integer. The good news here is you are fixing real bugs so your app will be much reliable overall.

Here I never specify the integer type for variable as it's the default, but everyone else can have different habits.

[BarryG]

Good to know that 6.10 is forcing my code to get cleaned up.