From: Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Template/STL questions
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:34:22 -0400
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Al Christians wrote:

> I'm having trouble with a big program failing with little dignity and
> a segment fault, and am fishing for any ideas about what might be
> breaking it.  TIA for any suspicions or likely suspects.  The program
> makes heavy use of the <string>, <map>, <vector>, and a few other
> related headers.

One problem that can come up with <string> is that djgpp comes with two
string classes:  The STL string template class, and the GNU string class.
Using calls into one when you mean the other can have "unpredictable and
undesirable" (tm) results.

I had similar troubles last year when I was learning my way around C++,
with much the same symptoms.


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