[Patch/RFC] Fix libstdc++/9875

[Nathan Myers]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:03:06PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> as Benjamin and Nathan already know I'm volunteering to
> work on seekoff/seekpos for encoding() >= 0 in the 3.4
> timeframe (and providing appropriate testcases, of course).
> 
> libstdc++/9875 is simply about encoding() > 1 and seems to
> me so easy to fix that I cannot resist the temptation to do
> it right away.

In general seekpos should not depend on seekoff, just because seekpos 
is supposed to work even where seekoff doesn't.  Nevertheless this is 
certainly better than before.  Let's use this, and revisit it when
we get variable-length encodings working (next week, right? ;-).

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org