Re: Porting Rogue Wave Program From Solaris to Linux
* Steven Backus:
I inherited a Solaris c++ program that uses Rogue Wave and am trying to
port it to linux. It seg faults in this code:
for (int size = entries() - 1; size > 1; --size)
{
RWOrderedIterator vectofclusts_iter(*((RWOrdered*) at(size)));
CCluster* pc;
while ((pc = (CCluster*) vectofclusts_iter()) != NIL)
pc->writeChartTo(fout);
}
}
Unfortunately I don't know much about c++ or rogue wave. Can
anyone give me some hints about debugging this?
Haven't ever used RW, but hey, you have two C casts in there.
They're wrong by definition, almost.
I'm guessing that RW collections were collections of void* or some such, yes?
That's the most probable cause of your problem, a wrongful pointer cast.
And what is this "NIL"?
One may hope the author of that code has now been forced (by Russia? some Power
with common sense, anyway) to make a living by cleaning up other's crappy code.
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
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