Re: Newbie Segfault Issue

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:39:28 -0400
Message-ID:
<ffo3gv$rc$1@news.datemas.de>
mearvk wrote:

A good bit of it is commented out so pay attention.


".. so pay attention, please."

I get a seg fault
(just says Segmentation Fault) when trying to run this with the line
below uncommented. I'm a java programmer so excuse the clumniness of
the code; it's still very early in development.

This line seems to be the culprit, but I'm not sure why:
document->getElementsByTagName(targetNodes); std::cout<<"7";


Your code, as posted, contains no definition of 'DOMDocument' class,
and there is no such class in standard C++ language. Consider asking
about all that functionality in the newsgroup where it's on topic (and
I don't know which one it might be, perhaps something with 'xml' in its
name). Tapping into my knowledge of xml documents and nodes, I am not
sure you should call 'getElements' on a document, shouldn't it be the
[root] node? Anyway, XML parsing is off-topic here since it isn't C++
specific.

When undefined behaviour is observed (and Segmentation Fault usually
falls into that category), it would be better to run your code under
a debugger and examine (by stepping into the functions) the values of
the objects and see the actual point at which the segmentation fault
occurs. It's not possible to conclude anything just by looking at
the code you so kindly provided.

[..]


V
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