strstream patch (was Re: next snapshot update)

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:

> > Are you trying to say you don't want to have to do any actual work?
> 
> That's /exactly/ what he's saying.  We all know that Cygnus employees do
> nothing but play nethack while the real work is contracted out to Microsoft.
> 

This is a joke right?

> > Plus I don't have a couple of hours to waste on
> > figuring out what to do.
> 
> Funny, I never thought of that time as a "waste"...

Well it is if I have about 12 other things which are more important and
if I don't really plan to make any major contributions to the library.

> 
> Anyhow, here's a partial patch for std_streambuf.h and Makefile.*.  The three
> new files are just included below, briefly labeled and delimited by rows of
> "3333333333".  The diff subcommand in cvs doesn't do anything with the -N
> option (or I'm misusing it), so the contents of those three aren't included
> in the diff.
> 
> I did need to make changes to the SGI files in order to get them to work
> under the current compilation scheme.  (The -I paths and -Werror made
> things interesting.)  So, nota bene:  libstdc++ will compile and link into
> a library with this patch, but I've done no further testing on it since
> my systems are having "issues" this afternoon.

Thanks for doing what I did not have time to.  Hopefully it will be
included in the next snapshot....

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Kevin Atkinson
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