[c++ stl] std::string bug?

[Gwenaël Durand <Gwenael dot dot dot Durand at laposte dot dot dot net>]

Hi,

It seems that one constructor of the std::string class or the data() method
doesn't work properly.

string::data() and string::c_str() are supposed to be equivalent but don't
always behave the same.

have a look at the following  code and its test.

....?

Thanks,
Gwenaël

PS: I update cygwin this morning => 1.3.9
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

void foo(const std::string& _str){
      cout<<"foo: cout<<_str            => "<< _str   <<endl;
      cout<<"foo: cout<<_str.data() => "<< _str.data()  <<endl;
      cout<<"foo: cout<<_str.c_str()=> "<< _str.c_str() <<endl;
      cout<<"foo: _str.length()         => "<< _str.length()<<endl<<endl;
}

void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  std::string str;
  if (argc > 1) str = argv[1];
  else str = "OOOOOOO";

  cout<<"----------foo(str);"<<endl;
  foo(str);

  cout<<"----------foo(\"say hello!\");"<<endl;
  foo("say hello!");

  cout<<"----------foo(\"...\");"<<endl;
  foo("...");

  cout<<"----------foo(str);"<<endl;
  foo(str);
}
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> g++ code.cpp -o code.exe
> code.exe
----------foo(str);
foo: cout<<_str            => OOOOOOO
foo: cout<<_str.data()  => OOOOOOO
foo: cout<<_str.c_str() => OOOOOOO
foo: _str.length()           => 7

----------foo("say hello!");
foo: cout<<_str           => say hello!
foo: cout<<_str.data() => say hello!
foo: cout<<_str.c_str()=> say hello!
foo: _str.length()         => 10

----------foo("...");
foo: cout<<_str           => ...
foo: cout<<_str.data() => ... hello!                    <<<<<=========
???????????!!!!!!!
foo: cout<<_str.c_str()=> ...
foo: _str.length()         => 3

----------foo(str);
foo: cout<<_str           => OOOOOOO
foo: cout<<_str.data() => OOOOOOO
foo: cout<<_str.c_str()=> OOOOOOO
foo: _str.length()          => 7
>
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>From my cygcheck.out:
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.9
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
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        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
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        Build date: Mon Jan 21 12:48:41 EST 2002
        Shared id: cygwin1S3


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Gwenael . Durand@laposte . net
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gwenael.durand
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