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basic_istream::ignore()Section: 31.7.5.4 [istream.unformatted] Status: TC1 Submitter: Greg Comeau, Dietmar Kühl Opened: 1999-07-23 Last modified: 2016-01-28
Priority: Not Prioritized
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Discussion:
In 31.7.5.2 [istream] the function
ignore() gets an object of type streamsize as first
argument. However, in 31.7.5.4 [istream.unformatted]
paragraph 23 the first argument is of type int.
As far as I can see this is not really a contradiction because
everything is consistent if streamsize is typedef to be
int. However, this is almost certainly not what was
intended. The same thing happened to basic_filebuf::setbuf(),
as described in issue 173(i).
Darin Adler also submitted this issue, commenting: Either 27.6.1.1 should be modified to show a first parameter of type int, or 27.6.1.3 should be modified to show a first parameter of type streamsize and use numeric_limits<streamsize>::max.
Proposed resolution:
In 31.7.5.4 [istream.unformatted] paragraph 23 and 24, change both uses
of int in the description of ignore() to
streamsize.