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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2009-03-23 04:52:53 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2009-03-23 04:52:53 +0000
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parent82f84159e0ec945657054ddcf465aca3253339ab (diff)
VC++ 6.0 is not future work :)
Do not recommend llvm::OStream anymore. Use raw_ostream or MemoryBuffer. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@67504 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -379,9 +379,8 @@ code, isolate it behind a well defined (and well documented) interface.</p>
<p>In practice, this means that you shouldn't assume much about the host
compiler, including its support for "high tech" features like partial
-specialization of templates. In fact, Visual C++ 6 could be an important target
-for our work in the future, and we don't want to have to rewrite all of our code
-to support it.</p>
+specialization of templates. If these features are used, they should only be
+an implementation detail of a library which has a simple exposed API.</p>
</div>
@@ -526,67 +525,9 @@ library. There are two problems with this:</p>
example) is allowed normally, it is just <tt>&lt;iostream&gt;</tt> that is
causing problems.</p>
-<table>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <th>Old Way</th>
- <th>New Way</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>#include &lt;iostream&gt;</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>#include "llvm/Support/Streams.h"</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>DEBUG(std::cerr &lt;&lt; ...);
-DEBUG(dump(std::cerr));</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>DOUT &lt;&lt; ...;
-DEBUG(dump(DOUT));</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::cerr &lt;&lt; "Hello world\n";</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::cerr &lt;&lt; "Hello world\n";</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::cout &lt;&lt; "Hello world\n";</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::cout &lt;&lt; "Hello world\n";</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::cin &gt;&gt; Var;</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::cin &gt;&gt; Var;</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::ostream</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::OStream</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::istream</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::IStream</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>std::stringstream</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><pre>llvm::StringStream</pre></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left"><pre>void print(std::ostream &amp;Out);
-// ...
-print(std::cerr);</pre></td>
- <td align="left"><tt>void print(llvm::OStream Out);<sup><a href="#sn_1">1</a></sup><br>
-// ...<br>
-print(llvm::cerr);</tt>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
-</table>
-
-<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
-
-<div class="doc_notes">
-<ol>
-<li><a name="sn_1"><tt>llvm::OStream</tt></a> is a light-weight class so it
- should never be passed by reference. This is important because in some
- configurations, <tt>DOUT</tt> is an rvalue.</li>
-</ol>
-</div>
+<p>The preferred replacement for stream functionality is the
+<tt>raw_ostream</tt> class (for writing to output streams of various sorts) and
+the MemoryBuffer API (for reading in files).</p>
</div>