cross-platform woes

marauder

The code below works on W2K with VC6 but will not work with Solaris 2.6 and g++ 3.1
by not working I mean it compiles fine but I get a segmentation fault whenit runs. Its the "is>> field" thats causing the problem.
Any ideas would be appreciated......

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

string field;
ifstream is("test.txt", ios_base::in);

if (is.fail())
{
cout << "\n Input file does not exist\n";
return 0;
}

while(!is.eof())
{
is >> field;
cout << field << endl;
}

is.close();
return 1;
}

marauder

update got it to work on RH8 with g++ 3.2 so it must be a g++ 3.1 peculiarity or maybe something on that machine

Talliesin

Have you tried wrapping it in a try block and seeing if anything is thrown?
Might be worth calling is.exceptions(badbit | failbit) before you try that, so that badbit or failbit being set will raise an exception.