BTW: Cody is one of my guys here at INL that's been working with me for almost
a year. I finally got him to sign up as a libmesh developer recently... and he
just signed up for the mailing list today.
Just in case anyone was wondering who the hell he is ;-)
Derek
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Cody Permann wrote:
> The <string.h> and <cstring> includes are really the old C library "char *"
> manipulation functions. <cstring> is equivalent to <string.h> but wrapped
> inside of the std namespace. <string> on the other hand is purely for the
> C++ string class. Depending on your compiler or other includes you might get
> the right behavior without these libraries explicitly included but it won't
> be portable and your mileage may vary.
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:13 AM, David Knezevic wrote:
>
>> Roy Stogner wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you get the same behavior from a simple test case?
>>>
>>> #include <cstring>
>>> int main(void)
>>> {
>>> strncpy(NULL, NULL, 0);
>>> }
>>>
>>> That ought to compile, at least.
>>
>> This compiles for me, but it doesn't compile when I change <cstring> to
>> <string>, which seems consistent with the error I reported before.
>>
>>> What compiler version are you using?
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, gcc --version gives
>>
>> gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) 4.4.1
>>
>>
>>
>> Derek Gaston wrote:
>>> Ok - the right thing (according to my compiler guru) is to include _both_
>>> <string> and <cstring>.
>>>
>>> Changing <string> to <string.h> you won't pick up std::string (although you
>>> probably got lucky and picked it up through another #include somewhere
>>> else).
>>>
>>
>> This works for me...
>>
>> - Dave
>>
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