Re: How to read a 8-bit grayscale JPEG image using C++?

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James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:01:12 -0000

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On Jul 19, 11:54 pm, Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherci...@gmx.net> wrote:

BobR wrote:

[snip]

Kai-Uwe Bux: Your example does not compile for me.
It slices off the '.at()' and '.size()' of the std::vector (and who kno=

what else)! Seems to store the iterators, not 'char's.

std::vector<char> Image(
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( PicIn ),
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>() ); // the ( ...() ) fails here

Are you sure, you copied the code correctly? I am pretty sure
that I put the second iterator argument within yet another
pair of parentheses:

  buffer the_buf ( std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( infile ),
                   (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>() ) );
                  ^^^ ^^^

What you wrote is parsed as a function declaration.

There is (or was for the longest time---I haven't verified with
the most recent versions) a bug in g++, in that it "committed"
to the function declaration as soon as it saw that the first
argument could be interpreted as a declaration. So:
    buffer the_buf ( (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( infile )),
                     (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>() ) );
worked, but putting the parentheses only around the second
argument didn't.

I've gotten into the habit of putting it around all of them, so
I won't have noticed if they've fixed this. (Probably have. I
ran into it some time ago, and they tend to fix bugs pretty
quickly.)

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