Question

AlertEvent::AlertEvent(const std::string& text) :     IMEvent(kIMEventAlert, alertText.c_str()),     alertText(text) {     //inspection at time of crash shows alertText is a valid string }   IMEvent::IMEvent(long eventID, const char* details) {     //during construction, details==0xcccccccc } 

on a related note, the monospace font looks really terrible in chrome, whats up with that?

Answer 1

alertText may be shown as a string in a debugger, but it has not been constructed yet (and therefore alertText.c_str() will return an indeterminate pointer).

To avoid this, one could initialize use text.c_str() as an argument to the IMEvent ctor.

AlertEvent::AlertEvent(const std::string& text) :     IMEvent(kIMEventAlert, text.c_str()),     alertText(text) {     //inspection at time of crash shows alertText is a valid string }   IMEvent::IMEvent(long eventID, const char* details) {     //during construction, details==0xcccccccc }