C++ library for egcs

Martin von Loewis martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Apr 10 12:35:00 GMT 1998


> No, in compliant C++ code, is is *not* correct.  ostream is now a typedef!
> ostream is really basic_ostream<char>.  This breaks the world.

No, it is correct. I assume we both talk about

class ostream;

#include <iostream>

This is correct, as it expands to

class ostream;
namespace std{
  //...
  typedef basic_ostream<char> ostream;
}

There is nothing wrong with that, you have an incomplete class
::ostream, and a typedef std::ostream. They are not the same,
but they aren't conflicting, either.

Martin



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