Re: Problem with fstream

[Andris Pavenis <pavenis at latnet dot lv>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Chris Card wrote:

> Hi Andris,
> 
> >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Chris Card wrote:
> >
> > > I posted this to gnu.g++.help today, but I though I might get a quicker
> > > response here:
> <snip>
> >It's know problem.
> Is there a list of known problems somewhere? I couldn't find it.
> >I had the same for DJGPP and had to modify some
> >headers to workaround related problems with handling DOS style text files
> >when one have CR LF <---> LF conversion. Even then support of such files
> >remains badly broken, however the problem mentioned above can be fixed.
> >
> >For comparisson I tested behaviour of std::[io]fstream classes
> >in program compiled with MS VC++ 6.0 and saw that it behaves much better.
> >(also seeking and getting stream position seemed to work with VC. For
> >example I have seen comment that they are not expected to work
> >for MINGW32 at all)
> >
> >My patchset for DJGPP is at
> >
> >http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gcc304s2.zip&name=gcc304s2.zip
> >
> >(it's for gcc-3.0.4, one needs to update for upcoming gcc-3.1 as patches
> >does not apply there)
> Thanks for the information - I'll take a look.
> I've only just upgraded to 3.0.3 :-( Will your patch work there, or must I 
> upgrade the compiler again?

zip archive contains a diffs for each modified file separatelly (So it was
for me easier to maintain). As far as I remember all should be Ok also 
with gcc-3.0.3.

> Also, is the problem in the compiler, or in libstdc++? If the latter, I'd 
> prefer just to patch the library if possible.

You need diffs for 2 files in libstdc++-v3/include/bits only:
	std_fstream.h (You'll need to additionally modify it, perhaps
                 by completely removing parts I excluded with
		 '#ifndef __DJGPP__')
	fstream.tcc

However I'm not sure it will be enough to simply modify these 2 files.
Perhaps You will need to rebuild libstdc++-v3 

Andris