(quick!) ifstream problem

Liche · 10-03-2005, 06:19 AM

I'm porting a largeish program from MSVCPP6 into GCC3.2.3 My program has the following function:

Code:

void myClass::load(const char filename[]) {
    ifstream file(filename);
    if (/*conditions*/) load("anotherfilename")
    file.close()
}

i.e. a load function which, under certain circumstances, calls itself recursively to access another file before carrying on. This works fine under VCPP+WinXP, but under GCC+Linux it fails with the second (and subsequent) file openings.

Is this an operating system difference? How do I resolve this problem?

Thanks

sirclif · 10-04-2005, 06:55 PM

Quote:

void myClass::load(const char filename[]) {
ifstream file(filename);
if (/*conditions*/) load("anotherfilename")
file.close()
}

well, the one problem i see (aside from missing semicolons), which may only be because you tried to generalize the code for us, is that "anotherfilename" never changes. so if you keep trying to call load and pass it the same string everytime, you'll have already opened the file. like i said, that may not be what is going on, but its the only thing that sticks out at me.