DO NOT REPLY [Bug 14176] - StreamTransform fails on 1.4/1.5 - works on 1.3

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StreamTransform fails on 1.4/1.5 - works on 1.3

David_N_Bertoni@lotus.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED



------- Additional Comments From David_N_Bertoni@lotus.com  2002-11-05 05:59 -------
This is a pretty nasty bug in the Sun istrstream class.  To confirm, try this
simple program:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <strstream>


int
main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
  const char* const  theData = "0123456789";

  std::cout << "The data to read is \"" << theData << "\"\n";
  std::cout << "strlen(theData) == " << std::strlen(theData) << "\n";

  std::istrstream  theStream(theData, std::strlen(theData));

  char  theBuffer[200];

  std::memset(theBuffer, 0, sizeof(theBuffer));

  theStream.read(theBuffer, sizeof(theBuffer));

  std::cout << "std::istrstream.read() returned \"" << theBuffer << "\"\n";
  std::cout << "std::istrstream.gcount() returned " << theStream.gcount() <<
std::endl;

  return 0;
}

I got the following output:

bash-2.02$ CC Test.C
bash-2.02$ ./a.out
The data to read is "0123456789"
strlen(theData) == 10
std::istrstream.read() returned "00123456789"
std::istrstream.gcount() returned 11
bash-2.02$

I'll have to figure out a work-around, perhaps by reverting Solaris back to the
old code.  That will work, but it has the disadvantage of having much lower
performance.