Native, non <cstdio> based implementation of <fstream>
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Description
It's my understanding that <fstream> is still a wrapper around a standard C FILE. Why doesn't the Microsoft STL implementation move forward and offer an efficient implementation that uses the Win32 API directly? Required functions can be forward declared so it's not necessary to include <Windows.h>.
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Research direction
Start with the linked implementation in stl/inc/fstream and trace how the fstream wrapper uses the standard C FILE interface. Then review which Win32 API functions would be needed without including Windows.h. Done would require a settled design and implementation scope for replacing or supplementing that wrapper.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100