Need advices on solving compile time errors.

[lucky6969b]

Error 1 error C2121: '#': invalid character: may be the result of macro expansion e: \ dosbox_ykhwong \ src \ dos \ dos_network2.h 114 1 dosbox
Error 2 error C3861: 'L': Can not find identifier e: \ dosbox_ykhwong \ src \ dos \ dos_network2.h 114 1 dosbox

 extern "C" int _nhandle;
 bool	Network_CloseFile(Bit16u entry)
{
		Bit32u		handle=RealHandle(entry);
		int _Expr_val=!!((handle >= 0 && (unsigned)handle < (unsigned)_nhandle));
		_ASSERT_EXPR( ( _Expr_val ), _CRT_WIDE(#(handle >= 0 && (unsigned)handle < (unsigned)_nhandle)) );         <<<<<<<<<<<< the pound sign generates this error
		if ( !( _Expr_val ) ) {
			_doserrno = 0L;
			errno = EBADF;
			dos.errorcode=(Bit16u)_doserrno;
			return false;
		}

		if(close(handle)==0)
		{
			NetworkHandleList[entry]=0;

			DOS_PSP		psp(dos.psp());
			psp.SetFileHandle(entry,0xff);

			return	true;
		}
		else
		{
			dos.errorcode=(Bit16u)_doserrno;
			return	false;
		}
}//bool	Network_CloseFile(Bit16u entry)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Jack

[Eri523]

 extern "C" int _nhandle;
 bool	Network_CloseFile(Bit16u entry)
{
		Bit32u		handle=RealHandle(entry);
		int _Expr_val=!!((handle >= 0 && (unsigned)handle < (unsigned)_nhandle));
		_ASSERT_EXPR( ( _Expr_val ), _CRT_WIDE(#(handle >= 0 && (unsigned)handle < (unsigned)_nhandle)) );         <<<<<<<<<<<< the pound sign generates this error
		if ( !( _Expr_val ) ) {
			_doserrno = 0L;
			errno = EBADF;
			dos.errorcode=(Bit16u)_doserrno;
			return false;
		}

		if(close(handle)==0)
		{
			NetworkHandleList[entry]=0;

			DOS_PSP		psp(dos.psp());
			psp.SetFileHandle(entry,0xff);

			return	true;
		}
		else
		{
			dos.errorcode=(Bit16u)_doserrno;
			return	false;
		}
}//bool	Network_CloseFile(Bit16u entry)

And what is the bit in red for?

[lucky6969b]

Thanks eri, I asked back the original author, he said it wasn't needed anymore, so I just don't bother fiddling with it now.
Let's go to another question, (should I open a new thread?)
is that when I enclose certain things in a namespace say

 namespace Util {
std::string compress(const std::string& input) { //throw (SaveState::Error)
	if (input.empty())
		return input;

	const uLong bufferSize = ::compressBound(input.size());

	std::string output;
	output.resize(bufferSize);

Error 1 error C2039: members of the 'compressBound': '`global the namespace'' e: \ the dosbox_ykhwong \ src \ save_state.cpp 66 1 dosbox
Error 2 error C3861: the 'compressBound': identifier not found e: \ dosbox_ykhwong \ src \ save_state.cpp 66 1 dosbox

the ::compressBound is not recognized. Is it supposed to be within Util or the global namespace.
If you have already used that before, it is called the zlib, it is also very common in IT industry. Just some compression stuff.
I am compiling the ykhwong build of dosbox.
Thanks
Jack

[Eri523]

Thanks eri, I asked back the original author, he said it wasn't needed anymore, so I just don't bother fiddling with it now.

I can hardly imagine that would ever have compiled under any version of the C++ or C standard, except perhaps it's some really funky and hard to comprehend "pattern" defining a macro within a macro expansion (what I somehow doubt is possile at all). And all that would heavily depend on the definition of the _CRT_WIDE macro which no-one around here except you may know by now.

As to the rest of your post: No-one can tell anything from that incomplete code snippet of yours. Not only that super short code snippets like this hardly ever are compilable in general, yours also suffers from unbalanced braces.

And no, I, myself, didn't ever use zlib.

[D_Drmmr]

the ::compressBound is not recognized. Is it supposed to be within Util or the global namespace.

If you write ::compressBound, it must be declared in the global namespace. If it is declared either in namespace Util or in the global namespace, then drop the colons.