From -7319875158529698521 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,73efb588d28d210a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-16 08:22:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: NgOrSePbAeM@bigfoot.com ("George van den Driessche") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: basic_istream::get() Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 43 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1034781778 12959 10.0.0.1 (16 Oct 2002 15:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:22:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 181q0e-0003Ms-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:22:56 +0000 X-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id BAA11273; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:22:18 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Reply-To: "George van den Driessche" X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:15:26 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.5 required=5.0 tests=INVALID_MSGID,PRIORITY_NO_NAME,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: **** Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:14850 as I understand it, there are six overloads of basic_istream::get(), one of which returns an int and five of which return a basic_istream&. In particular, there are: basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf *sb); basic_istream& get(basic_streambuf *sb, E delim); (these from the Visual C++ 6 documentation, but also I found many equivalents distributed over the Web.) However, I find that in the actual implementation, the Visual C++ 6 version of istream.h declares: istream& get(streambuf&,char ='\n'); and the STLPort 4.5.0 in stl/_istream.h similarly declares: _Self& get(basic_streambuf<_CharT, _Traits>& __buf, char_type __delim); _Self& get(basic_streambuf<_CharT, _Traits>& __buf) { return get(__buf, this->widen('\n')); } Which is correct, the version that takes a basic_streambuf* or the version that takes a basic_streambuf&? Cheers, George --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]