Dwite Oct 2011 Q1

[Dan]

Cyril @ 26th October 2011, 7:50 pm wrote:

Dan, is there any way to standardize new lines to '\n'?

Yes but that just casues the same issue for a diffrent group of peoleop who are assuming the line break is CR+LF.

[A.J]

I am sorry about #3. I was feeling in a particularly bad mood when I wrote up the problem set for this round. Though I really enjoyed the story (inspired by Maarij Baig, a friend of mine). I'll be releasing solutions/analyses tomorrow.

[jli1]

Yeah, just tested with the posted input file and it seems to work fine with my compiler. I thought the string and stream libraries were pretty standard, its weird that getline behaviour would vary among compilers.

[d310]

Well, many people on other online judges have had the same problem.
Perhaps in the future unix newlines for test data?

[Cyril]

Can we try the gcc compiler suite from MinGW? I've always used g++ from that, and I've never had issues with newlines.

[Dan]

d310 @ 26th October 2011, 7:57 pm wrote:

Perhaps in the future unix newlines for test data?

I fear that might just cause this issue for a new group of peoleop.

I wonder if it has to do with g++ being complied for cygwin.

[jli1]

Cyril @ Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:00 pm wrote:

Can we try the gcc compiler suite from MinGW? I've always used g++ from that, and I've never had issues with newlines.

+1, (obviously) if the judge is on Windows

[Dan]

Tony came up with a soultion to link in textmode.o which forces g++ to open everything in textmode. It seems to work on the tests i did on the judge but it might be worth while investaging the use of MinGW.

[md]

Dan @ 2011-10-26, 8:01 pm wrote:

d310 @ 26th October 2011, 7:57 pm wrote:

Perhaps in the future unix newlines for test data?

I fear that might just cause this issue for a new group of peoleop.

I wonder if it has to do with g++ being complied for cygwin.

By default cygwin uses *nix line endings (\n only), there is a way of setting it to use windows line endings though. Alas I don't remember what it is.