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Ionutz,
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:35:29 +0900
>From: Ionutz Borcoman <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990329: c++ interface bug? NcFile::get_var()
>Keywords: 199903251256.FAA21940
In the above message, you wrote:
> gcc is obsolete on Debian 2.2. Even my kernel 2.2.3 and my glibc2.1 are
> compiled with egcs. The gcc was completly replaced and I have no
> intention to put it back. :-)
>
> About the problem with NULL pointers: yes, I think here is the problem.
> We have a similar problem with our VDK library.
The problem might not lie with a null pointer. I thought that your
netCDF file didn't contain the variable "P"; thus, I misinterpreted
where your program crashed. If, instead, your netCDF file contains
a "P" variable but not an "xxx" variable, then your program might be
crashing in the "printf" statement of the following:
var = nc->get_var("xxx");
if(!var)
printf("not existent variable\n");
I suggest that you determine where, exactly, your program is crashing.
A debugger that understands both C and C++ might help.
> It seems more not a compiler problem, but that netCDF C++ interface is
> not ANSI C++ compliant.
NcFile::get_var() is compliant. It's equivalent to the following when
the named variable doesn't exist:
NcVar* NcFile::get_var( NcToken name ) const
{
return 0;
}
So the issue isn't conversion between pointer types, but rather
conversion of zero to a null pointer of type NcVar* -- which is always
allowed.
> I already have this copyright, but I'm not very good at interpreting
> these documents :-)
Who is? :-)
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Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>