From: Date: November 22 2005 6:33pm
Subject: Re: Query class derived from std::ostream constructor issue
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That sounds like a much better way to manage the object 
creation.

Nice!

   /kristofer


> Thanks for this bug report and patch!  I believe this will affect the
> ABI, so I'm waiting for Warren's comments.
> 
> I think a better way to handle this would be to use the protected
> init() member.  Regular streams like fstream and stringstream need to
> behave the same way as our Query, since they need to controll their
> own buf objects.
> 
> For example, they do (from g++ headers):
> 
>       basic_ifstream()
>       : __istream_type(NULL), _M_filebuf()
>       { this->init(&_M_filebuf); }
> 
> This would prevent a change in the ABI.
> 
> - Chris