[PATCH] 4.0 fix for libstdc++/23871

[Janis Johnson]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:23:15AM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi Janis,
> 
> >Sorry, I was running the tests by hand outside of the testsuite and
> >_GLIBCXX_ASSERT was not set.  With that set, the tests fail for 4.0 with
> >and without my patch, so apparently the tests require parts of the patch
> >that I did not backport; my patch has only the changes to std_ostream.h,
> >which are needed to allow the PR's test case to compile.
> >  
> >
> I see, thanks.
> 
> The problem is that the very same flaw (& instead of ==, basically) was
> present also in ostream.tcc, in two places, for operator<<(long __n) and
> operator<<(long long __n).
> 
> For 4.0 I would rather prefer adjusting only that (in addition to the
> std_ostream.h hunk), and not touching also the locale classes. Are you
> willing to test that complete change?

Sure, I'll do that.

Janis