cin/cout as reference objects [Re: AIX I/O failures]

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> writes:

    Gabriel> If they say sizeof(cout), they will get sizeof(ostream).
    Gabriel> Why is that incorrect ?

It's not.  Richard is talking about changing cout over time without
recompiling object files; I am talking about what happens to those
object files when running with the new library, built with the
modified cout.

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