[RFC] Doubts about our istream::ignore

[Damour, James A]

I'm very sorry about that.  I read the list in digest format, and the
shift in the thread name made me miss the followup until *after* I'd
sent the email.  My apologies.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paolo Carlini [mailto:pcarlini@suse.de] 
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 5:08 PM
To: Damour, James A
Cc: libstdc++
Subject: Re: [RFC] Doubts about our istream::ignore

Damour, James A wrote:

>Could you please add a comment that specifies the test that you are not

>going to add, and why you're not going to add it?  I think that it 
>would be helpful to future generations of developers to know why we 
>believe that, in this case, libstdc++ can meet the specs without having

>code to handle this case.
>
As you may have noticed, in a following message I pointed out that,
since streamsize is actually a typedef for ptrdiff_t, we shall
definitely add that test. Just give me a couple of days to understand
the best way to do it ;)

Paolo.