[TriLUG] OT: String.h in g++ around Redhat 5.0

[Owen Berry]

The problems you are experiencing all seem related to the C++ Standard
Library. If you're getting warnings about namespaces being mostly broken
in this version of the compiler, I would expect serious headaches as
namespace support is a requirement for the standard library (it's all in
std). Many other things may not be working as expected if something as
basic as this is "mostly broken".

Of course, I may be wrong and the libraries you're having trouble with
aren't from the C++ Standard Library ... because the library wasn't
standardized yet. (??) When was this compiler released? According to my
Josuttis book (The C++ Standard Library) the C++ standard was worked on
between 1989 and 1997/98. In this case, you might still have headaches
figuring out how it should work, because C++ wasn't standardized when
your compiler came out, unless you can find some old documentation.

My suggestion would be to look at using a newer compiler. If you're
stuck with the older compiler, I would look at using standard C. Just my
HO. BTW, why are you trying to get this to work on the older compiler?

Owen

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:46:46AM -0400, Guthrie, Joshua L CIV NAVAIRDEPOT wrote:
> ///////////////////
> This that stood out for me having to do was to put .h's behing the
> #includes...
> 
> using std::iso;
> using namespace std;
> 	gave me the reassuring warning:
> 	Warning:  namespaces are mostly broken in this version of G++
> 	So I commented them out..
> 
> 	I complile and get a crap load of warning:
> 	Cannot pass objects of type 'ifstream' through '...'
> 	And 
> 	Cannot pass objects of type 'String' through '...'
> 
> 	The compiler didn't like me declaring string but seemed to like
> String better...  so I replaced my string (s) with String...
> 
> 	I get errors:
> 	No member function 'String::find(char)' defined
> 	No member function 'String::erase(int, unsigned int)' defined
> 	No member function 'String::c_str()' defined
> 
> 	These seem to be on lines that I use the data type String...
> 
> 	My namespace warning, and my inability to find a sstream.h, or
> get String to work started to make me wonder if I had slipped into a
> twilight zone of comiler history in linux...
> 
> 
> 	Sorry for the long post :-(
> 	And thanks!!
> 
> 
> 	-josh
>