Re: Revised patch

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@cygnus.com>]

> Also, in <iostream>, an instance of Init is created, which should be
> std:: scoped. What I don't understand: Why is that instance created at
> all? It is not required by ISO C++, is it?

No, it is not explicitly required. What is required: cin/cout/cerr/clog
are properly initialized before other iostream objects are used. The
approach I took was to save these objects as non-static ostream/istreams
with null buffers, then switch in the correctly tied buffers with the 
Init mechanism and basic_ios::rdbuf(streambuf*). So yes, it is necessary
given the current implementation. 

-Benjamin