Re: Problems with derived IO classes
Ian C wrote:
Hello all
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but this is driving me nuts, and
I'm really an old procedural programmer so not sure if it's me or the
compiler at fault. I can perhaps guess :-)
I have written a derived streambuf class so I can log to a
system-dependent logging interface. I use this in a derived class like so:
class Syslog : public std::ostream
{
public:
Syslog(eSyslogLevel level)
: std::ostream(new SyslogBuffer(level))
{
}
};
If I use a variable to use this class, it compiles fine:
Syslog str(SYSLOG_INFO);
str << "Test Number " << 1 << std::endl;
However, if I use it as a temporary object like this:
Syslog(SYSLOG_INFO) << "Test Number " << 1 << std::endl;
the compiler complains that it can't find a match for operator<< for the
Syslog class and the character array.
I believe the difference is that in the second case, Syslog(SYSLOG_INFO)
is a temporary, and therefore binds to a const reference, and there is
no operator<< that takes a const ostream& as the LHS.
BTW, you do know you can change the streambuf in a regular ostream, so
you don't have to derive from std::ostream, right?
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