Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 02:12:06 -0400 (AST)
From: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems with simple fstream program
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


I got a response to my question (love this list!), as follows:

On Tue, 28 Feb 1995, Steve Salter (519) 452-4447 wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> I spoke with someone who know C++ much better than I do, and he says that the
> program is valid and should work.  We successfully compiled and ran it under
> Borland C++ but I am unable to get it to run when compiled by gcc.
> 
> I got and compiled the libiostream library for debugging and followed the call
> to infile.get(one_char).  Unfortunately, the error occurred in a deeply buried
> function which I didn't trace into (the function call is "_strbuf->sbumpc()". 
> This translates into a call to _IO_getc(this).
> 
> Anyway, I have to do _some_ real work today, but will try again tomorrow to
> follow this further unless someone else solves it.

OK, so the tutorial is right and gpp is wrong.  Is this a djgpp problem 
or a GNU problem, or does it have to do with dialect differences, or 
what?  It seems like the code is vanilla C++ and should work, so I am a 
little more confident of the propriety of posting my question to this 
list!  This is simple stuff, and if it doesn't work then I don't have a 
lot of confidence in the whole djgpp C++ package (the C part works great, 
though!).

Steve:  Thanks a million, I may eventually get to lesson two!!

Bill Davidson
bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com