printing to screen prior to a segmentation fault

[cre]

I had this issue, and I'm not sure exactly what's going on.

Here are two lines from my code.

cout<<"grrr";
if(leaf->p->color==1){...blahblahblah...}

I was getting segfaulted at the if statement because p had not been properly assigned. But the cout<< that I had put in as a diagnostic tool was not printing to the screen, which made me think that the error was further up. Finally I used gdb to find the exact location of the error, and saw that it occurred at the if statement. But why wouldn't the cout<< print to the screen if the error happened after the cout<< command?

As it turns out, this updated code does print the text before the segfault.

cout<<"grrr\n\n";
if(leaf->p->color==1){...blahblahblah...}

So adding the newlines allows the text to print out before I get segfaulted out of the program. What's going on? Is this some printscreen buffer flushing issue, or something else?

(Ah Matlab, you have spoiled me rotten.)

[Moschops]

printscreen buffer flushing issue

Yes. It's not related to the segFault.

[hanst99]

Insert std::endl instead of \n to force a flush after the newline.