Change to type std::streampos (was: Re: Compiling ACE with gcc-3. 4 prerelease)

[Kellogg, Oliver, ADBM64]

Douglas C. Schmidt [mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu] wrote:
>
> > The problem compiling TAO using gcc-3.4-pre which I posted to
> > comp.soft-sys.ace seems to be an incompatible change to the
> > type std::streampos in the CVS head of the GNU libstdc++.
> > streampos is no longer a simple 'long', but it's been turned
> > into a class. That wouldn't be all too bad, but there is no
> > method for converting the streampos back to an integer type.
> > I suspect that libstdc++ needs correction.
>
> Ok, so it sounds like the GNU folks have to fix this, not us, right?!
>

As far as I can see, yes...
Anyone from libstdc++ care to comment?

Thanks,

Oliver