http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46624
--- Comment #3 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-11-23 22:00:07 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > > Oh, I guess you are right. Standard doesn't specify behaviour for cin's > streambuf type. It is implementation-specific. It worked for me on different > platforms and compilers. I was also reading it's definition on cplusplus.com > but I should look what standard says. cplusplus.com has always been a poor reference > Anyway, it would be nice if it worked as I expected. cin.ignore() statements > inside loops could be avoided. It couldn't be avoided in portable code, because other implementation still might not have the semantics given by cplusplus.com
