Re: [Patch] Remove fpos<>::operator== and !=

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a few days ago, while working on something else, I noticed that this
> kind of code did compile:
> 
>    std::streampos pos;
>    ...
>    -1 != pos
> 
> and this one did not:
> 
>    std::streampos pos;
>    ...
>    pos != -1
> 
> The inconsistency is due to operator== and operator!= being member
> functions, and, I maintain, not really needed, because fpos has got a
> conversion operator to streamoff (a signed integer type). I propose to
> simply remove the operators, and just exploit the conversions - I cannot
> see anything wrong with that - will wait until tomorrow in case of
> different opinions.

I don't know exactly what source/binary constraints libstdc++ is
operating under, but that seems like an incompatible change, as
"pos::operator==(-1)" will presumably no longer work?

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