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Re: v3.0.4 vs. v2.95.3, Solaris 8, basic_ostream/fstream weirdness
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:17:45PM -0600, David P. Michaels wrote:
> _rsdr_input_file.write((unsigned char *) &_rsdr_data_record.header,sizeo\
> f(RSDR_DATA_HEADER));
> ^^^^ line 320
>
> _rsdr_input_file is declared as type 'fstream' in the private part of class
> rsdr_file:
It's not the declaration of _rsdr_input_file that matters as much as that of
_rsdr_data_record.header. They're specifically casting it to the wrong type.
Have they tried not typecasting it at all?
> Worth a try -- it's presently cast as unsigned char, so maybe that's
> something that changed // is now enforced // whatever.
The library for 2.x was far from ISO-standard-compliant. (The library
predated much of the standard, if I recall.) The rewritten library for
3.x follows the standard and is much stricter. Your older C++ code may
not actually qualify as C++ anymore.
> that's when I started realizing: "Looks like they're shooting themselves in
> the foot here." I likened it to doing a #include <iso/stdio_iso.h> instead
> of #include <stdio.h> ... although it might not be that drastic.
That's a good comparison.
Phil
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