[Bug libstdc++/26458] Passing a NULL char* into output stream now breaks the output stream

["phil at mitre dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Comment #9 from phil at mitre dot org  2006-02-24 21:14 -------
Subject: RE:  Passing a NULL char* into output stream now breaks the output
stream

Yup.  But by providing the ability to batch stream inserts, per the
standard I presume otherwise it's not much of a stream, then you create
the situation where this difficulty exists.  That's kinda why I joked
about "filing a PR with the standard".  If the standard says you can
string together inserts, and that a failed insert will "disable" the
stream until the error is cleared, but not allowing you to determine
where an error occurred seems a failing of the standard.

BTW, I thought that GNU was never one to limit themselves to a standard
when they could always rise above it and do better.

                phil


Phil Brown
Lead Software Systems Engineer
Mitre CAASD
phil@mitre.org

Perception is nine-tenths of the flaw.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: pcarlini at suse dot de [mailto:gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org] 
>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:03 PM
>To: Brown, Phil
>Subject: [Bug libstdc++/26458] Passing a NULL char* into 
>output stream now breaks the output stream
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>------- Comment #8 from pcarlini at suse dot de  2006-02-24 
>21:03 -------
>(In reply to comment #7)
>> .                                          In my recent example I
was
>> explaining how, even if I asserted ostream state and detected that
an
>> error had occurred, I would not be able to determine WHERE the error
>> had occurred.
>
>Indeed, I understand, but this is a general "issue", which has 
>nothing to do
>with the specific inserter. Any time you "batch" many 
>insertions you loose the
>ability to do fine grained error checking, by definition.
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