Re: strstream reinstatement

From:
cbarron413@adelphia.net (Carl Barron)
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:20:47 GMT
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<230820061509244593%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1156322203.785878.132850@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Earl Purple <earlpurple@gmail.com> wrote:

kanze wrote:

Format text into a char[] buffer. It's useful if you have to
interface to a legacy interface, to write into a memory mapped
file, and a few other things.

Of course, writing your own memory_streambuf isn't that hard
either.


so maybe the standard (or possibly boost at first if they haven't
already) should implement a memory_streambuf (probably as
memory_basic_streambuf) and then one can use that instead of strstream.


   Boost does have a high level stream buffer library,

see http://boost.org/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html

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