AIX I/O failures

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| >>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> writes:
| 
|     Gabriel> This is really ugly because, on one hand cin is seen with
|     Gabriel> the right type and on the other hand as array[] at the
|     Gabriel> code level -- I wouldn't to debug such a mess.
| 
| It's hard enough to debug cin as it is!
| 
| Seriously, it's not a big deal -- you just cast &cin to an istream*,
| and then deal with that.
| 
|     Gabriel> 	extern istream& cin; // can a conforming program
|     Gabriel> detect?
| 
| Good question, and clever idea.  But, I don't think there's a need to
| take the risk.

No conforming program can detect it.  'std::cin' as specified acts
like a reference.

-- Gaby
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