Re: using STL in .oct files

[Nimrod Mesika]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:29:01AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:

> My guess is that constructors for global objects are not being called
> when dlopen loads the .oct file on your system.  Doing that is really
> beyond the scope of Octave.  I think your compiler/linker is supposed
> to handle it.  As far as I know, it works correctly on Linux systems.
> For example, the following code worked for me:
> 
>   #include <octave/oct.h>
> 
>   string tryme_string = "this is a string, eh?";
> 
>   DEFUN_DLD (tryme , , ,
>     "tryme")
>   {
>     return octave_value (tryme_string);
>   }
> 

Indeed. When I run this example octave panics and dumps core.   

Thanks.

-- 
Nimrod.
http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27



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