> It shouldn't make a differnce. g++ keeps header files in
> /usr/include/g++-<1 or 2 or 3>/
>
> and the entire non-comment section of iostream
> is
>
> #ifndef __IOSTREAM__
> #define __IOSTREAM__
> #include <iostream.h>
> #endif

So all it's doing is referring it to iostream.h??

Why did that get started. That many people forgetting the h???

> Which is a header trick that seems to be more common to c++, that makes
> the file empty if it's already been included. (Think headers that include
> headers).
> But it still seems kind of odd to me, since iostream.h already
> wraps itself in _IOSTREAM_H . Maybe ANSI c++ says you should be able
> to do #ifdef __IOSTREAM__ to check for iostream.

I keep hearing about wrappers in the linux environ. What is the definition??

John


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