problem with catalog()

[Mangal Pandey <gcc_help@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm a newbea and stuck at a small c++ function. please
find it below :

#include <nl_types.h>
#include<iostream>
#include<errno.h>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
 {
   nl_catd Catalog;
   Catalog = catopen( "../etc/tsetcatalog.cat", 0 );
   cout<<"Catalog :  "<<Catalog<<endl;
   if( Catalog == (nl_catd)-1 )
    {
     cout<<"unable to open the catalog :
"<<strerror(errno)<<endl;
    }
   return 0;
 }

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 output below :
             
            Catalog :  0xffffffff
            unable to open the catalog : Success


please tell me what is the reason for this strange
output.

I'm using gcc-4.0.1 on RHEL AS4.
above code is working fine on solaris10.

HTH
Mangal

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