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From: mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: form() is broken
Message-ID: <1991May5.161553.14253@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 16:15:53 GMT
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The form function in C++, i.e.:

   cout << form(<control-string>,<args>) ;

seems to be broken.  Let p be a pointer to a vector of floats.

   cout << p[1];    // this works

   cout << form("%f",p[1]) ;   // IOT Trap (Core dumped)

Supposedly we have the latest compiler from AT&T.  Is this a know problem?

-Tom