Re: basic_streambuf question
"sri" <srinivasarao_moturu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1175789323.390444.258840@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
I would like to implement file buffer class to make avialable
buffering mechanism to ifstream or own customized file stream.
My question is what are the semantics for seekoff, overflow, and
underflow.
When I see MS VC++6.0 STL code's basic_filebuf implementation, I
observed that it is not maintaining any buffering mechanism, instead
it is directly handling with the files. Please correct me if I am
understanding in a wrong way.
That's correct. The code for overflow/underflow/uflow effectively
emulates the getc/putc macros in <stdio.h>, reaching directly into
the FILE buffers. Thus, there's a single buffering mechanism that's
shared between C and C++ I/O. (No need to disable sync_with_stdio
to get good throughput.)
P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com
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