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basic_filebuf::setbuf()Section: 31.10.3.5 [filebuf.virtuals] 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 31.10.3 [filebuf] the function setbuf() gets an
object of type streamsize as second argument. However, in
31.10.3.5 [filebuf.virtuals] paragraph 9 the second 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_istream::ignore(),
as described in issue 172(i).
Proposed resolution:
In 31.10.3.5 [filebuf.virtuals] paragraph 9, change all uses of
int in the description of setbuf() to
streamsize.