iostreams backward compatibility for gcc-3.0

[Scott Johnston]

Is there (or will there be) support for backward compatibility in the
iostreams portion of the libstdc++ delivered as part of gcc-3.0?
Specifically I'm looking for a filebuf::attach method, one that I've
relied on for quite a while to open istream's and ostream's on sockets.
For that matter, will there be a way of building in simple classic
istream and ostream classes?

ANSI conformance is great, but I could really use g++/libstdc++ backward
compatibility.  Experience taught me that it requires much
experimentation to get iostreams programming working in the first place,
and I don't want to repeat years of effort if I can help it.  Freezing
my copy of the compiler at gcc-2.95.* is a possibility, but not a good
one.

Scott Johnston
http://www.ivtools.org