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Apologies for the length, I couldn't find any other postings that helped me.
I'm trying to teach myself C++ and am reading Stroustrup's
"The C++ Programming Language" Reprinted with corrections July 1987.

On p. 167 exercise 12 is:
Given the program:

#include <stream.h>

main()
{
        cout << "Hello, world\n" ;
}

modify it to produce the output

Initialize
Hello, world
Clean up

Do not change main() in any way.

on pp. 158-9 Stroustrup discusses static store and suggests inventing
a type with a constructor and destructor for initialization and cleanup
to be used only once to allocate a static object so the constructor
and destructor are called.

my first attempt used streams as follows:

// startend1.h

class startend {
        int *junk;
public:
        startend() {  junk = new int; cout << "Initialize\n"; }
        ~startend() { delete junk; cout << "Clean up\n"; }
};

// hello1.c
#include <stream.h>
#include "startend1.h"

static startend bookkeep;

main()
{
        cout << "Hello, world\n" ;
}

it had a segmentation fault (it appeared to die while running the constructor
and that cout may not have been initialized before used -- surmised by stepping
through with adb, dbx didn't seem to like g++).

After fiddling with it for a bit, I gave up on streams and changed to stdio:

// startend2.h

class startend {
        int *junk;
public:
        startend() {  junk = new int; printf("Initialize\n"); }
        ~startend() { delete junk; printf("Clean up\n"); }
};

// hello2.c
#include <stream.h>
#include "startend2.h"

static startend bookkeep;

main()
{
        cout << "Hello, world\n" ;
}

which produced the intended result without core dumping:

Initialize
Hello, world
Clean up

my questions:
Why doesn't the first version work?
Is there any way to use streams inside a constructor?
More generally, what do I seem to be misunderstanding?

Thanks in advance,
Mary Ann Brennan

brennan@seismo.css.gov