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ezust@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Alan Ezust) writes:
>I was wondering if there is an easy way to get or create a class which
>behaves internally as a streambuf (i.e. when you send stuff to it, instead
>of storing to disk, ot stores in memory) but can be used as an istream in
>functions (using the >> operator, etc)...  Double-inheritance seems like
>the right direction to go, but there would be many name conflicts..

Such a class already exists; it is called ostrstream.  It is part of the
standard set of "iostream" classes and the libg++ one looks just like the
cfront one.

>I am using libg++ 1.39 and g++ 1.40, and I am modifying a huge program
>which, after spending a month trying to to recompile under the new
>compiler and libraries, was not successful, so I am sticking with this
>version (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).

Sorry, libg++ 1.39 has "old style" streams and does not include
ostrstream.  Also, the language accepted by g++ 1.40 vaguely resembles an
older version of C++, but differs in many respects.  Your code is probably
hard to port because g++ 1.40 let you violate the rules all over the
place, and the new compiler complains.  It's probably worth porting if
you want the code to be maintainable.



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