kdbgstream::operator<<({,u}char)

[Bo Thorsen]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:20, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:06, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > I can understand the check for 0, but I disagree about the '\n'. A
> > flush happens upon endl, not on '\n'.
> >
> > std::cerr << "Something\n";
> > std::cerr << "Something" << std::endl;
> >
> > The C++ standard says that the second flushes the stream, the first
> > doesn't. Does the kdDebug stream not follow this?
>
> No. Apparently many developers are too lazy to write endl, so they use
> \n instead :)

Are you sure it's not just because they don't know the difference?

Anyway, since this is only debug output, I assume it does make sense here 
to get it out asap, so the buffering shouldn't really happen.

I just always assumed KDE followed the C++ standard, so it surprised me.

Bo.

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