Ben,
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> In VC7, look at the following code:
>
> char* ok1 = "1234567890ABCD";
> char* ok2 = "1234567890ABCDE";
> char* bad1 = "1234567890ABCDEF";
> char* bad2 = "1234567890ABCDEFG";
> string take;
> take = ok1;
> take = ok2;
> take = bad1;
> take = bad2;
>
> Debug it and inspect take after take = bad1 and take = bad2. take is[/color]
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> with garbage!!!
> If the const char* string is longer than 15 characters then the resulting
> std::string is junk.
>
> On VC7.1 it is fixed.
>
> Is there a workaround? I searched on google groups but couldn't find
> anything. This is a painful and glaring bug. I'm forced to suspect that it
> may be my setup, but I can't see why that would be..
>
> Please help! Must I rewrite std::string ????[/color]
No. The problem is only on the debugger, not at runtime. This happens
because for VC7, std::string was rewritten so that it includes internally a
union used to store inline strings with 15 or fewer chars, or a pointer to
heap allocated space if it's larger, and the debugger only looked at the
first part.
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Tomas Restrepo
tomasr@mvps.org 
