stdio synching and startup code (was Re: segfaults after loading shared libstdc++)

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:48:20PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
> | On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:54:16AM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> | 
> | Yeah, I'd just finished looking at those.  I must say, code like
> | 
> |     new (&cin) istream(_M_cin);
> | 
> | just looks *freaky* weird.  :-)  Placement new over an I/O object...!
> 
> You're right.

I'm embarrassed to say that it took me ten minutes to convince myself that
this was, in fact, correct code.  :-) It's the first non-trivial use of
placement new I can recall seeing in A Real Program.

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