Re: How to override basic_streambuf::seekoff?
Krzysztof ??elechowski wrote:
"Tom Widmer [VC++ MVP]" wrote:
Krzysztof ??elechowski wrote:
I have tested a
stringbuf and it is left intact, although it is not documented.
The standard specifies stringbuf quite well - I don't see any latitude
for it to do anything but the obvious. Do you have a copy of the
standard? (it was only $18 last time I checked)
Perhaps. Yes, I have. The Standard is not bundled with MSDN and MSDN
remains tacit on the subject. And it does not mention that additional
information can be found in the Standard.
This has put
me into much confusion and hence my question about what the best practice
should be and why.
I suppose, where you have independent in and out positions, do what
stringbuf does, as far as is possible. I would throw an exception in the
cases when you can't.
I was afraid the answer would be such. It is much more natural to implement
the thing transactionless. Thanks anyway.
Why do you think you can't implement it to be transactionless? If a seek
operation (relative to beg or end) fails after moving only one of the
two positions, I don't see that is a problem, since tellg and tellp can
be used to work out what went wrong (assuming the error can be recovered
from at all).
Tom
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