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Re: [PATCH] New stream buffer for cin, cout etc.
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
> >If the names are in headers exposed to the user's program, they will need
> >to be uglified, e.g., __gnu_cxx::__basic_stdiobuf.
>
> I thought this had already been discussed? Extensions are already
> guarded by the namespace itself. Extension classes in std are already
> guarded by the uglified class name.
No, that discussion was derailed by confusion, and never reached
a resolution.
Extension headers that are brought in by standard headers have to be
uglified. This may mean that we need both a __basic_stdiobuf and a
basic_stdiobuf (probably derived from it), the former for use in
<iostream> and the latter documented for users.
Nathan Myers
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