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From: joemac@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: bug in cout << ?
Message-ID: <6782@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 14:18:11 EST
Article-I.D.: apple.6782
Posted: Thu Nov 19 14:18:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 16:33:54 EST
References: <807@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU>
Reply-To: joemac@apple.UUCP (Joe MacDougald)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
Lines: 38
Keywords: bug ostream::operator<<

My mailer barfed on a R to this address so here's my reply...

in Article <807@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU> (Thomas F. McDougal) says:
>
>   The offending code:
>
>           cout << "Done doing something...\n";
>           char* w;
>
>           while (cin >> w) {
>            ...
>             cout << "Could not find: "
>	     cout << w;
>             cout << "\n";
>           }


The problem here (besides the missing ';' after "Could not find: ") is that 
no store has been allocated for the characters read from cin.  You have 
declared a char* but no real store.  

If you replace:

	char* w;

with:

	char w[BUFSIZE]; // BUFSIZE in <stdio.h>

everything is hunky-dory.

Hope this helps.

	joe   


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