Re: c++/5595: illegal concstructor invokation

Re: c++/5595: illegal concstructor invokation

[jason]

Synopsis: illegal concstructor invokation

Responsible-Changed-From-To: unassigned->jason
Responsible-Changed-By: jason
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Mar 18 09:57:40 2002
Responsible-Changed-Why:
    x
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jason
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 18 09:57:40 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    There is no bug here.  "false" is a valid argument to the string constructor taking a char*.  The constructor doesn't like getting a null pointer, so it throws an exception.  You don't catch the exception, so the program terminates.

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c++/5595: illegal concstructor invokation

[binder]

>Number:         5595
>Category:       c++
>Synopsis:       illegal concstructor invokation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          wrong-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 05 14:26:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     binder@iue.tuwien.ac.at
>Release:        Reading specs from /home/binder2/gcc3/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.3/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.0.3-src/configure --prefix=/home/binder2/gcc3 --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix Thread model: posix gcc version 3.0.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
RH-7.2 2.4.17
>Description:
g++3 compiles the following code without any complaints. The resulting binary causes a segmentation violation.

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

struct TestConstr
{
	TestConstr(const string str="")
	{
		cout << "Str: " << str << endl;
	}
};


int main()
{
	TestConstr	tt(false);
}


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>How-To-Repeat:
g++ bug.cc -o bug
./bug
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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