writing to a binary file

[stkmtd]

Ahoy, having some trouble writing binary to a file.

I'm just trying to write a simple program (as an exercise) that will output a file so that when I open it in a hex editor it will contain the value 0xDEADBEEF.

My code is as follows:

code:

#include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; int main (){         ofstream deadbeefFile;         char * myInt = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef};         deadbeefFile.open ("deadbeef.bin", ios::out | ios::binary);         deadbeefFile.write (myInt, 4);         deadbeefFile.close();         return 0; }

When I compile at the shell (with g++):

code:

johnny@jnf-linux-desktop:~/coding/testProjects/binWrite$ g++ deadbeef.cpp deadbeef.cpp: In function ?int main()?: deadbeef.cpp:7: error: scalar object ?myInt? requires one element in initializer

I'm new to C++, so any help is appreciated.

[DemonWasp]

The compiler seems to be looking at your code and seeing "pointer to a char", not "an array of char". This alternate syntax compiles (though I haven't bothered testing it...):

code:

char myInt[] = {0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef};

[stkmtd]

Hoorah. It works. Thank you kindly.