Re: Having trouble with streams....
SpreadTooThin wrote:
This constructor is causing the application to crash on Mac OS X, in
xcode...
dbgFile::dbgFile(void) : std::ostream(0), output_buffer(),
indent_buffer(&output_buffer), isopen(false) {}
here is part of the class definition:
class dbgFile : public std::ostream {
private:
std::filebuf output_buffer;
dbgBuf indent_buffer;
std::stack<std::string> s;
int stack_level;
bool isopen;
}
I suspect that std::ostream(0) is the culprit, but not sure how to
tell...
Read the documentation. std::ostream has only one constructor, and that
takes a pointer to the streambuf object that the ostream is supposed to
manage. There's no other way to give it a streambuf, so you must do that
with the constructor. Passing a null pointer is not a good idea. Give it
the address of the std::filebuf object.
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Pete
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