stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[Roberto Mariottini]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Roberto Mariottini wrote:
>> The portable way to write a newline in C++ is to use the 'endl'
>> modifier.
>> Your program is not portable, on Windows it will generate Unix text 
>> files.
> 
> Wrong. Newline translation will be correct on both systems.

It depends on how you open the file: 'endl' works even with files open 
in binary mode (the default on most platforms, the default on the 
average programmer).

Or else, say that 'endl' is yet another design error in C++.

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