libstdc++/8655: Problematic behaviour of std::ends

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

Ioannis,

This problem is exactly what PR 5735 was about. I found that equally 
annoying, but apparently gcc2.95 was not standards conforming, and gcc3 
is. I work around this by only appending the std::ends when using gcc2.95, 
using the preprocessor for this. Unfortunately, gcc2.95 needs this since 
otherwise it will return a non-terminated string, which is of course 
useless when assigned to a char*. This is one of the more annoying 
incompatibilities between 2.95 and 3.x :-(

Read the audit trail of this report.

Regards
  Wolfgang

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