Heres a hard one: ostream include / msvcp90d.dll not working

[mOoEyThEcOw]

So I was coding along working on another dll, I recompiled a dll containing the following code and suddenly my program was crashing, when i clicked the show info link on the 'send this report to Microsoft' dialog box, it said the dll which was throwing the error was msvcp90d.dll, I tracked it down to the log function (debigger said it couldn't be evaluated) :

#include "log.h" (includes <iostream>, <fstream>, <string> and has the log structure)

RupLogger::RupLogger()
{
	logfile.open("log.txt", ios::out);
}

RupLogger::~RupLogger()
{
	logfile.close();
}

void RupLogger::log(string msg)
{
	logfile << msg + " \n";
}

So I decided to try something, the logger started below is logged correctly, but log still crashes.

RupLogger::RupLogger()
{
	logfile.open("log.txt", ios::out);
	logfile << "[SYS] Logger Started \n";
}

So I thought there might be some strange issue with the logfile object's access or something so I tried below:

void RupLogger::log(string msg)
{
	this->logfile << "[SYS] Test Log \n";
	this->logfile << msg + " \n";
}

Now this is where it gets freaky, now the debugger jumps into the ostream header and says the following is not evaluating (in bold):

Line 746:

streamsize _Pad = [B]_Ostr.width()[/B] <= 0 || [B]_Ostr.width()[/B] <= _Count
		? 0 : [B]_Ostr.width()[/B] - _Count;

And um well now I'm just confused >.< and would like my program to run correctly again...

[Agni]

Well i copied your class, created a class definition out of whatever was given and used it and it worked fine for me.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

class RupLogger
{
	public:
		RupLogger();
		~RupLogger();
		void log(std::string msg);
		std::ofstream logfile;
};

RupLogger::RupLogger()
{
	logfile.open("log.txt", std::ios::out);
}

RupLogger::~RupLogger()
{
	logfile.close();
}

void
RupLogger::log(std::string msg)
{
	logfile << (msg + " \n");
}

int main()
{
	RupLogger().log("Hi there");
}

Don't see any reason why it should crash. Could it be something else causing the crash. Did you check the core file?

[mOoEyThEcOw]

Yea both ostream and the dll haven't been modified for months, and compiled and ran just fine a little while ago, what I don't get is why I'm getting the debug error inside of the ostream header file.

I am calling log through a pointer of the class, but it's been initialized and had it's constructor called before hand, besides if I put other functions in the log function it still runs correctly till it tries to write a line.

[mOoEyThEcOw]

Here's an interesting development, it appears that its an external call which is causing the crash, if I call log from the constructor it works but why would a call from something else fail, let alone inside the frikken header! >.<

[mOoEyThEcOw]

This is the code that crashes it and how it is being called. Now I'm kinda new but as far as I know I'm doing that right.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

class RupLogger
{
	public:
		RupLogger();
		~RupLogger();
		void log(std::string msg);
		std::ofstream logfile;
};

RupLogger::RupLogger()
{
	logfile.open("log.txt", std::ios::out);
}

RupLogger::~RupLogger()
{
	logfile.close();
}

void
RupLogger::log(std::string msg)
{
	logfile << (msg + " \n");
}

static RupLogger* iLog;

int main()
{
	iLog = &RupLogger();
	iLog->log("Hi there");
}

[kvprajapati]

Temporary object. Use new keyword.

iLog =new RupLogger();

[mOoEyThEcOw]

doh! that makes sense thanks!