Re: streampos is not a long?

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

"Spectre" <carlsagan.13@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm moving a Sun Forte C/C++ application to GNU GCC 3.4.1. This
> application declares "streampos pos; ... pos++;" The error with GCC is
> "no 'operator++(int)' declared for postfix '++'" and when I dig
> streampos is some kind of class, not a long integer, 

>From http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostream/streampos.html:

  This type describes a class to contain all the information needed
  to restore an arbitrary file-position indicator within a stream. It
  can be constructed from or casted to an integer offset value

> which stops me cold!

It doesn't need to. You can replace 'pos++;' with 'pos += 1;'

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