[Texmacs-dev] Strange bug with C++

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Someone has an idea why the following code yields
a segmentation fault since more than five years?
I fixed that by not using fstream at all,
but that seems a bit ridiculous when using C++...

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bool
load_string (url u, string& s, bool fatal) {
  string name= concretize (u);
  char* _name= as_charp (name);
  bool err= !is_rooted_name (u);
  if (!err) {
    cout << "opening " << name << "\n";
    ifstream fin (_name);
    cout << "opened\n";
    if (!fin) err= true;
    if (!err) {
      char c;
      while (fin.get (c)) s << c;
      if (!fin.eof ()) err= true;
    }
  }
  cout << "read " << s << "\n";
  if (err && fatal)
    fatal_error (as_string (u) * " not readable", "load_string");
  delete[] _name;
  return err;
}
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