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Re: Strange stream behaviour
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 04:30:17PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Jason Merrill <jason_merrill@redhat.com> writes:
>
> | >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org> writes:
> |
> | > There is no reason to expect the program to work. In particular, the
> | > function cin.get() can never return EOF under any circumstances. EOF
> | > is an int constant, where cin.get() can only return character values.
> |
> | Gosh, that seems like a big ol' trap for new users. Is EOF checking a
> | casualty of templatization?
>
> I think the canonical way to check for end-of-file uses
>
> typedef std::char_traits<character-type> char_traits;
> if (char_traits::eq_int_type(characrter, char_traits::eof()))
> ...
> which operates on the "integer"-type representation of characters.
The above is correct in template code parameterized on the character type.
When you know you have an ordinary "char" stream, comparing a streambuf
result with vanilla EOF remains correct, and Gaby's code above reduces
to the same instruction sequence.
Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org