This is the mail archive of the
libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the libstdc++ project.
RE: [RFC] Doubts about our istream::ignore
- From: "Damour, James A" <James dot Damour at dfa dot state dot ny dot us>
- To: "Paolo Carlini" <pcarlini at suse dot de>
- Cc: "libstdc++" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:14:07 -0400
- Subject: RE: [RFC] Doubts about our istream::ignore
I'm very sorry about that. I read the list in digest format, and the
shift in the thread name made me miss the followup until *after* I'd
sent the email. My apologies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paolo Carlini [mailto:pcarlini@suse.de]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 5:08 PM
To: Damour, James A
Cc: libstdc++
Subject: Re: [RFC] Doubts about our istream::ignore
Damour, James A wrote:
>Could you please add a comment that specifies the test that you are not
>going to add, and why you're not going to add it? I think that it
>would be helpful to future generations of developers to know why we
>believe that, in this case, libstdc++ can meet the specs without having
>code to handle this case.
>
As you may have noticed, in a following message I pointed out that,
since streamsize is actually a typedef for ptrdiff_t, we shall
definitely add that test. Just give me a couple of days to understand
the best way to do it ;)
Paolo.