Constructor of TiXmlDeclaration crashing

[Anonymous]

I am making my own xml files using TinyXML. Everything saves out perfect apart from the declaration. It crashes inside the constructor for TiXmlDeclaration. When I comment out the TiXmlDeclaration line everything saves correctly (without crashing).

Random Code:

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TiXmlDocument doc;

TiXmlDeclaration *dec = new TiXmlDeclaration ("1.0", 0, 0);

// Will never get this far
doc.LinkEndChild (dec);

Call Stack (might be corrupted due to template params being turned into html):

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>    Jail Break++.exe!strlen()  Line 78    Asm
     Jail Break++.exe!std::char_traits<char>::length(const char * _First=0x00000000)  Line 352 + 0x9    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::assign(const char * _Ptr=0x00000000)  Line 622 + 0x9    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::operator=(const char * _Ptr=0x00000000)  Line 473    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!TiXmlDeclaration::TiXmlDeclaration(const char * _version=0x004f5a9c, const char * _encoding=0x00000000, const char * _standalone=0x00000000)  Line 1248    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!DataStore::Write(const std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > & filename={...})  Line 72 + 0x5f    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!WinMain(HINSTANCE__ * instance=0x00400000, HINSTANCE__ * prev_instance=0x00000000, char * command_line=0x00141f52, int window_state=1)  Line 31 + 0x1f    C++
     Jail Break++.exe!WinMainCRTStartup()  Line 251 + 0x30    C
     kernel32.dll!7c816d4f()    
     ntdll.dll!7c915b4f()    
     kernel32.dll!7c8399f3()    

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It crashes on this line:

standalone = _standalone;

Any ideas?

[Ellers]

Works fine in my build.

Are you defining TIXML_USE_STL?

The only thing I can think of is if you're using STL, then the assignment will be std::string standalone = 0

I would have thought it better to do use "", not 0. Try it and see.

But without STL the above works fine for me.
HTH
Ellers

[Anonymous]

Yep that sorted it - I was using an example from a website who had 0 in - I take it he wasn't using the STL version like I am.

Thanks!

[Ellers]

Very interesting!

Would that website have been: http://software.ellerton.net/tinyxml.html

that is, the howto that I wrote?

Hmm. My bad. I will fix the example...

Ellers

[Anonymous]

ah so you're the reason I lost 3 hours work time debugging!!

Ah well, someone had to find it - just a shame it was me :).

[Ellers]

Yep, thats me :)

Well chalk it up to learning the library. ;)