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std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio: std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio

NAME

std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio - std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio

Synopsis

static bool sync_with_stdio( bool sync = true );

Sets whether the standard C++ streams are synchronized to the standard C streams after each input/output operation.
The standard C++ streams are the following: std::cin, std::cout, std::cerr, std::clog, std::wcin, std::wcout, std::wcerr and std::wclog
The standard C streams are the following: stdin, stdout and stderr
For a standard stream str, synchronized with the C stream f, the following pairs of functions have identical effect:
1) std::fputc(f, c) and str.rdbuf()->sputc(c)
2) std::fgetc(f) and str.rdbuf()->sbumpc()
3) std::ungetc(c, f) and str.rdbuf()->sputbackc(c)
In practice, this means that the synchronized C++ streams are unbuffered, and each I/O operation on a C++ stream is immediately applied to the corresponding C stream's buffer. This makes it possible to freely mix C++ and C I/O.
In addition, synchronized C++ streams are guaranteed to be thread-safe (individual characters output from multiple threads may interleave, but no data races occur)
If the synchronization is turned off, the C++ standard streams are allowed to buffer their I/O independently, which may be considerably faster in some cases.
By default, all eight standard C++ streams are synchronized with their respective C streams.
If this function is called after I/O has occurred on the standard stream, the behavior is implementation-defined: implementations range from no effect to destroying the read buffer.

Parameters

sync - the new synchronization setting

Return value

synchronization state before the call to the function

Example

// Run this code

  #include <iostream>
  #include <cstdio>

  int main()
  {
      std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
      std::cout << "a\n";
      std::printf("b\n");
      std::cout << "c\n";
  }

Possible output:

  b
  a
  c