istringstream 'read' terminating on a null character

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:37:46PM +1200, Mathew Pitchforth wrote:
> When I use GCC V3.0 I am finding that binary 'read' operations on an
> istringstream are terminating on a null character.  The write operations are
> unaffected by the null characters and setting the streams to binary does not
> resolved the problem.

The stringstream classes ignore the binary flag (which does not do what
you seem to think it does).  I'll try and take a closer look at your code
tomorrow and test it with current sources.

Phil

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