VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats. Here is how to install it: Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA.DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesn’t find it, will force an … Read more
Sounds like a weird requirement… Anyway, reflection does not allow you to change code behaviour, it can only explore current code, invoke methods and constuctors, change fields values, that kind of things. If you want to actually change the behaviour of a method you would have to use a bytecode manipulation library such as ASM. … Read more
You could use a code coverage analysis tool for this and look for unused spots in your code. A popular tool for the gcc toolchain is gcov, together with the graphical frontend lcov (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php). If you use gcc, you can compile with gcov support, which is enabled by the ‘–coverage’ flag. Next, run your application … Read more
From the ’89 standard as quoted in the new testament: Flowing off the end of a function is equivalent to a return with no expression. In either case, the return value is undefined. That standard usually expresses the on-the-ground behavior of pre-existing implementations.