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569. Postcondition for basic_ios::clear(iostate) incorrectly stated

Section: 31.5.4.4 [iostate.flags] Status: Dup Submitter: Seungbeom Kim Opened: 2006-03-10 Last modified: 2016-01-28

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Duplicate of: 272

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Section: 27.4.4.3 [lib.iostate.flags]

Paragraph 4 says:

void clear(iostate state = goodbit);

Postcondition: If rdbuf()!=0 then state == rdstate(); otherwise rdstate()==state|ios_base::badbit.

The postcondition "rdstate()==state|ios_base::badbit" is parsed as "(rdstate()==state)|ios_base::badbit", which is probably what the committee meant.

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