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Here's a guess:
  Since cout and cin are namespace scoped objects, they
have to be initialized before being used.  I'll bet the
compiler depends on some C++ run-time code being linked
in and executed before main, but Cobol doesn't know this,
and so they are never constructed.

Srinivas Junnuru wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The situation is: A main Cobol85 program calls a C++ function (say CPPFUNC).
> What all CPPFUNC has is two cout and one cin statements.
> When I link and run the cobol program, I can see that it first gets into the
> cobol program (as I have some display statements in it) and then it goes
> into CPPFUNC.. As soon as it hits the cout and cin statements I get a
> segmentation violation... There is nothing fancy in this CPPFUNC... Now, if
> I replace the cin and cout with scanf and printf statements, the program
> works great!!! So, what am I missing here???
> 
> FYI, I am working on HP-UX, using HP aCC and Cobol85 compilers.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Srini
> 
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> (Srinivas Junnuru)
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> Martijn Lievaart wrote in message <78502s$7ue@news3.euro.net>...
> >Srinivas Junnuru wrote in message <784487$cvu$1@news.mr.net>...
> >> Can some one tell me what are all the libraries needed for using cin and
> >> cout??  I am getting segmentation violation at run time if I use cin and
> >> cout.. Also, what are all the libraries available for streaming??
> >>
> >
> >
> >If your program links, you have all libraries correct. If it crashes at
> >runtime, you made an error in your program. I have a good guess what it is,
> >but I'll have to see your source code first to know for sure.
> >
> >I'm not sure what you mean by "all the libraries available for streaming".
> >
> >HTH,
> >Martijn
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> >reply to mlievaart at orion in nl
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> >
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