"Older Microsoft C++ compilers have bugs" ?? - As if the newer ones do not
have bugs? All compilers, whether they be Microsoft or not have bugs.

Senthil, I found many bugs in the Microsoft compilers (in fact so many, I
stopped reporting them after a while choosing rather to work around these).

I had this problem with an older version (sorry it was a very long time
ago).  What I vaguely recall doing was removing optimization, stack and other
compiler command line options and started reintroducing these gradatim until
I was able to find one switch the compiler would choke on. Turns out the only
way I could fix the problem was to remove the switch (compile option) from
the make file.

I think this would be a better approach than trying to port everything to a
new version!  Good luck.

On a funnier note: There was a version of C++ compiler which implemented the
memset() function by checking for a null character at the end!!! :-) So the
only way I could fix this (because Microsoft never did get back to me) was to
first set the last position to a '\0' and then use memset(). :-)