------- Comment #41 from potswa at mac dot com 2010-09-17 19:04 ------- Well, I'm happy if you'd like to merge the diffs. My code was written with the intent of optimizing the output case, too, but I guess it's not too inefficient or awkward from the perspective of input only.
I just filed a bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45708 about the requirement to separate reads and writes. I suppose it will be a duplicate, but maybe it is worded a little better than existing bugs. Although your current users might know the restriction, I don't think it's really well-documented. I personally observed this behavior when getting started with iostreams, and it was quite discouraging. GNU having a large part of the iostreams marketshare, I wouldn't be surprised if this were a minor stumbling block to iostreams adoption overall. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45628
