I am a *ahem* newbie programmer, so maybe this is a stupid question.. but wtf do i do when MSVC++ 6.0 reports: " fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR (compiler file ''msc1.cpp'', line 1786) " ?

This is the most annoying error! It usually does that when there is a syntax error in template code. But I have seen it in other obscure moments.

here is how I fix it : say it was compiling one your file yourfile.cpp for example and then you get INTERNAL error.

You comment out the body of every functions. If the code compiles, then you start uncommenting functions 1 by 1 until you find when it complains and try to fix the problem.

But Sometimes, you will uncomment all the code and it will compile correctly without you changing anything in the code!!!!

yup, found it .. a missing ";"
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