On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:24:40AM -0800, Lawrence Crowl wrote: > [....] >> >> All of these functions come in two forms. >> >> >> >> function (FILE *, item_to_dump, formatting) >> >> function (item_to_dump, formatting) > > Since we have switched to C++, it would be really nice to have dump functions > writing to a C++ std::ostream
I'm not sure what to think about using streams. I have no great familiarity with them, so I can't say whether they provide any concrete advantages over dumping to FILE objects. Additionally, the rest of the compiler uses FILE objects for I/O. How do the two stay in sync? Diego.
