Re: AIX I/O failures

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>]

David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

| >>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis writes:
| 
| Gabriel> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| 
| Gabriel> |   char cin[sizeof(istream)]
| Gabriel> |      __attribute__ ((__align (__alignof__ (istream))));
| 
| Gabriel> Wouldn't then cin get type 'char[]'? Or am I missing something?
| 
| 	Yes.  I believe that one needs to keep the cin type used in the
| initializer completely separate from the rest of the code which defines
| the correct istream type for cin.

This is really ugly because, on one hand cin is seen with the right
type and on the other hand as array[] at the code level -- I wouldn't
to debug such a mess.

Can a conforming program detect the followiing declaration for cin:

	extern istream& cin;	// can a conforming program detect?

so that we can do

	char __cin_storage[sizeof(istream)]
	     __attribute__ ((__align (__alignof__ (istream))));


	istream& cin = *(istream*)(&__cin_storage[0]);

Or is that still sufering from the init issue?

-- Gaby
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