Renaming Symbols cout, cerr, cin, clog

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 29, 2002, "Stefan Vogel" <Stefan.Vogel@clarity-ag.net> wrote:

> So is it possible to rename those symbols in future releases of the
> libio!

Definitely not.  The C++ ABI doesn't say anything about different
mangling for say a member-function named cin of class foo, but after
your patch, such a member function will be mangled differently
depending on whether iostream.h is #included before or after the
definition of the class, in each class body.  So it's not as harmless
as you may have made it sound.

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