Global Fstream not working.

[wtf]

I can open it, and calls to .is_open() indicate the ofstream is open, but nothing is ever written to it. It worked when compiled under c-free but now its not with codeblocks, which is weird cause from what I hear they both use the same compiler. I've been told that there are probably some compiler options I could change to make codeblocks a little less finicky.... but i don't know which ones, or how to.

Also, please don't laugh. I know this is bad coding practice, but I've been using my global fstream variable in a user defined class.... and its always worked swell up until now. My motto is if it ain't broke then don't spend hours trying to fix it.

[helios]

You know, this is interesting. I've had a similar problem before with MinGW, only the fstream wasn't quite global. It was inside a global object. I was redirecting cout, cerr, and clog to files, and the messages would be written to the wrong streams or even not at all. I think it's a bug in MinGW and the reason why I no longer use it for any serious coding.
Try it on VC++ or GCC if you have access to Linux. There shouldn't be any problems.

[wtf]

Well whadyaknow? I added outfile.clear() to the beginning of main() and everything is working perfectly now. Isn't it weird how a problem can be bugging you for months and then all of a sudden an idea comes to you.... and presto.... its like why didn't I think of that before?