[LC++]Curiosity

[Dr Mark H Phillips]

Hi,

I have found what appears to be either a compiler
error or an error in the standard string library.  It
is rather odd.

I've attached the code below.  Basically I start with
a pointer to a (string,int) pair.  Then I call a
"function" which shouldn't harm anything, but afterwards
when I try to print the pair, the string has been
corrupted.

Now the version of g++ I was using was 2.95.4.  I did
try compiling it using version 3.2.2 and the problem
disappeared.  I have also found that by changing
Dequote to:

struct Dequote {
  std::string operator()(std::string const& token) const {

  etc...

(so that there is now a const reference in there) everything
works fine under 2.95.4.

So I've found a work-around.  The reason I'm posting this to
the list is that I'm curious.  I'm wondering whether this is
a compiler error that they fixed in the 3.*.* series, or whether
the earlier string implementation was buggy, or whether something
else is going on.  Does anyone know?

Cheers,

Mark.

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