I'm posting this here because I suspect my question may concern the c++ setup on this Debian 2.0 install I have here. I'm trying to compile a sample snippet of code (from the STL docs at SGI) and I can't find the right header to declare push_back:
//--------------------my headers ---------------------- #include <algorithm> // needed for 'reverse' (is this correct?) #include <iomanip> #include <string> //------------------- here's the code snippet --------------- int main() { string s(10u, ' '); // Create a string of ten blanks. const char* A = "this is a test"; s += A; cout << "s = " << (s + '\n'); cout << "As a null-terminated sequence: " << s.c_str() << endl; cout << "The sixteenth character is " << s[15] << endl; reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); s.push_back('\n'); cout << s; } The compile complains that: /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp: In function `int main()': /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp:17: no matching function for call to `basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> with line 17 being the s.push_back call. I'm using the egcs setup that came with the default install of 2.0. I upgraded some deb packages, so this is what I have now: egcc 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU (egcs) C compiler. libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version) libstdc++2.8-de 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (development files) Any clues, anyone, that might help this c++ neophyte gain some ground here? TIA for any light shed on these wonderful mysteries! -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.brainiac.com/bernie