David Fang <fang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > To give a little more context for what I'm trying to do in C++ > (experimentally): I've discovered that std::ifstream foo("/dev/stdin") > results in a file stream that works just like cin, likewise for stdout, > etc... Just like in standard C, one could use stdin, stdout, stderr as > FILE*, I'd like to do the equivalent with std::fstream's. (std::cin is a > basic_istream, not type-equivalent to a basic_ifstream.) But basic_ifstream is a basic_istream. > I'm writing a little stream manager that maintains stream objects (not > references to) internally without any run-time polymorphism, so I need > one single type to handle both stdio and file streams, That would be basic_istream/ostream. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf