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Hi.

This might be a silly question, but a coworker of mine noticed this, and we've 
tested it on two compilers with similar results:

	#include <iostream.h>
	#include <strstream.h>
	int main (char * argc, char * argv[])
	{
 	  ostrstream str("abcdefg", 4);
   
  	 cout << "Length = " << str.pcount() << endl;
  	 cout << "Data   = " << str.str();
	}

produces the following output on both the GNU and HP C++ compilers
	Length = 0
	Data   = abcdefg

Two things were puzzling about this.  

The first was that the length parameter on the c'tor didn't seem 
to be used for anything, and the second was that I couldn't spot the 
right way to tell how big the buffer in the strstreambuf is (how many 
actual characters are in it).

It seems that "data" should have returned either "abcd", or "", 
rather than "abcdefg".  This tossed me.

My friend expected the 'pcount()' to tell him how many bytes are in
the buffer.

I can see some of this for istream(), though much still eludes.  For
an ostream, this is somewhat maddening.

Is is standard, and does it make sense?

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