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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Interacting with C</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets V1.76.1"/><meta name="keywords" content="&#10; ISO C++&#10; , &#10; library&#10; "/><link rel="home" href="../spine.html" title="The GNU C++ Library"/><link rel="up" href="io.html" title="Chapter 13.  Input and Output"/><link rel="prev" href="fstreams.html" title="File Based Streams"/><link rel="next" href="atomics.html" title="Chapter 14.  Atomics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Interacting with C</th></tr><tr><td align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fstreams.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 13. 
+ Input and Output
+
+</th><td align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="atomics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="section" title="Interacting with C"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="std.io.c"/>Interacting with C</h2></div></div></div><div class="section" title="Using FILE* and file descriptors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.io.c.FILE"/>Using FILE* and file descriptors</h3></div></div></div><p>
+ See the <a class="link" href="ext_io.html" title="Chapter 26. Input and Output">extensions</a> for using
+ <span class="type">FILE</span> and <span class="type">file descriptors</span> with
+ <code class="classname">ofstream</code> and
+ <code class="classname">ifstream</code>.
+ </p></div><div class="section" title="Performance"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.io.c.sync"/>Performance</h3></div></div></div><p>
+ Pathetic Performance? Ditch C.
+ </p><p>It sounds like a flame on C, but it isn't. Really. Calm down.
+ I'm just saying it to get your attention.
+ </p><p>Because the C++ library includes the C library, both C-style and
+ C++-style I/O have to work at the same time. For example:
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">
+ #include &lt;iostream&gt;
+ #include &lt;cstdio&gt;
+
+ std::cout &lt;&lt; "Hel";
+ std::printf ("lo, worl");
+ std::cout &lt;&lt; "d!\n";
+ </pre><p>This must do what you think it does.
+ </p><p>Alert members of the audience will immediately notice that buffering
+ is going to make a hash of the output unless special steps are taken.
+ </p><p>The special steps taken by libstdc++, at least for version 3.0,
+ involve doing very little buffering for the standard streams, leaving
+ most of the buffering to the underlying C library. (This kind of
+ thing is tricky to get right.)
+ The upside is that correctness is ensured. The downside is that
+ writing through <code class="code">cout</code> can quite easily lead to awful
+ performance when the C++ I/O library is layered on top of the C I/O
+ library (as it is for 3.0 by default). Some patches have been applied
+ which improve the situation for 3.1.
+ </p><p>However, the C and C++ standard streams only need to be kept in sync
+ when both libraries' facilities are in use. If your program only uses
+ C++ I/O, then there's no need to sync with the C streams. The right
+ thing to do in this case is to call
+ </p><pre class="programlisting">
+ #include <span class="emphasis"><em>any of the I/O headers such as ios, iostream, etc</em></span>
+
+ std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
+ </pre><p>You must do this before performing any I/O via the C++ stream objects.
+ Once you call this, the C++ streams will operate independently of the
+ (unused) C streams. For GCC 3.x, this means that <code class="code">cout</code> and
+ company will become fully buffered on their own.
+ </p><p>Note, by the way, that the synchronization requirement only applies to
+ the standard streams (<code class="code">cin</code>, <code class="code">cout</code>,
+ <code class="code">cerr</code>,
+ <code class="code">clog</code>, and their wide-character counterchapters). File stream
+ objects that you declare yourself have no such requirement and are fully
+ buffered.
+ </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fstreams.html">Prev</a> </td><td align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="io.html">Up</a></td><td align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="atomics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">File Based Streams </td><td align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../spine.html">Home</a></td><td align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 14. 
+ Atomics
+
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