On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Joel Sherrill wrote:
I think this is a glibc issue but since this method is defined in the C++ standards, I thought there were plenty of language lawyers here. :)
s/glibc/libstdc++/ and they have their own ML.
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That's deprecated, isn't it?
class strstreambuf : public basic_streambuf<char, char_traits<char> > ISSUE ====> int pcount() const; <===== ISSUE My reading of the C++03 and draft C++14 says that the int pcount() method in this class is not const. glibc has it const in the glibc shipped with Fedora 20 and CentOS 6. This is a simple test case: #include <strstream> int main() { int (std::strstreambuf::*dummy)() = &std::strstreambuf::pcount; /*-- pcount is conformant --*/ return 0; } What's the consensus?
The exact signature of member functions is not mandated by the standard, implementations are allowed to make the function const if that works (or provide both a const and a non-const version). Your code is not guaranteed to work. Lambdas usually provide a fine workaround.
-- Marc Glisse