what is a POD object? 1

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Hi!

We got a new compiler (solaris) and with this compiler we get a warning while compiling a project. The comopiler complains about a non-POD object. Does anyone know what this is??

This is the warning:

&quot;ExceptionLogger.cpp&quot;, line 136: Warning: A non-POD object of type &quot;std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>&quot; passed as a variable argument to function &quot;StaticException::StaticException(ErrorStatusType, const char*, int, long, const char*, ...)&quot;.

cheers

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patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[xwb]

POD = Plain Ol' Data. see

http://www-pat.fnal.gov/personal/wb/boost/ISOcxx/doc/POD.html

Basically, I think you are passing an STL string to something which expects a const char*. Try using the c_str() member function. eg

string src("fred");
char dst[16];
strcpy (dst, src.c_str());

 

[frag]

Hi xwb!

This was the right tip, thank you very much! )

cheers

frag

patrick.metz@epost.de