c++/7498: copy constructor of ostream (and ios) is private and it should not be!

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

The following reply was made to PR c++/7498; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
To: mdp@fnal.gov
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/7498: copy constructor of ostream (and ios) is private and it should not be!
Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:34:23 +0200

 mdp@fnal.gov writes:
 
 | >Number:         7498
 | >Category:       c++
 | >Synopsis:       copy constructor of ostream (and ios) is private and it should not be!
 
 [...]
 
 | >Release:        gcc 2.96.3 20000503/Linux
                   
 There is no GCC release named 2.96.3, I guess you meant 2.95.3.
 That release is known to come with pre-standard library.
 The library that comes with GCC-3.x is much more compliant and meets
 the standard requirement in that area.
 
 [...]
 
 |   ostream a=file;
 
 This is ill-formed, you cannot copy a std::ostream.
 
 | works on Visual C++ but on g++
 
 If it worked with Visual C++, then it is a bug in that compiler.
 
 -- Gaby