Thread: compiler error not formatting output

Hey all,

Just have a simple question. I am not much of a programmer, more of a script guy, but I have a client that is getting some weird output with errors while compiling.

Here is the output he is getting:

Code:

g++ test_string.cc -o test_string
test_string.cc: In function ã: <--- Notice no additional information on error
test_string.cc:10: error: ã was not declared in this scope <--- Notice no additional information on error

And should be getting something like:

Code:

g++ test_string.cc -o test_string
test_string.cc: In function main: <---- Information presented
test_string.cc:10: error: mystringx was not declared in this scope <---- Information presented

Here is the code he is trying to compile. Keep in mind, this is purposely wrong to show the error output.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(int argC, char* argV[])
{

       string mystring = "Hello World\n";
       cout << mystringx << endl;
}

His Lang setting are all correct:

Code:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

My customer is running RHEL 5.4 64bit.

Any ideas why this is formatting this way?

Thanks!
Joe

Aside from the obvious text encoding problems, you assigned the string "Hello World\n" to the string variable mystring, and you sent the string mystringx to cout, which doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by Babkockdood

Aside from the obvious text encoding problems, you assigned the string "Hello World\n" to the string variable mystring, and you sent the string mystringx to cout, which doesn't exist.

Yes, I understand that there are errors with the code, but there are deeper issues with the compiler; this is why we wanted to have errors in the code.

As a refresh:
This is what the compiler is spitting out (Incorrectly formatted)

Code:

g++ test_string.cc -o test_string
test_string.cc: In function ã: <--- Notice no additional information on error. Missing the `In function main' part.
test_string.cc:10: error: ã was not declared in this scope <--- Notice no additional information on error. The ã should have been mystringx.

It should look like this(Correctly formatted):

Code:

g++ test_string.cc -o test_string
test_string.cc: In function main: <---- Information presented
test_string.cc:10: error: mystringx was not declared in this scope <---- Information presented

Thanks for the reply!

Joe

Originally Posted by Joeg1484

Yes, I understand that there are errors with the code, but there are deeper issues with the compiler; this is why we wanted to have errors in the code.

Ah yes, how absent-minded of me.