In article 1604961139410001@galois.ecs.soton.ac.uk, S.D.Maclean@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stuart Maclean) writes:
>
>I noticed that manipulator "endl" synchronises with the external
>representation, but "ends" does not.  Tracing our IOStream library,
>libg++-2.7.1, it indeed does not do a flush when using "ends".

That is correct. It has always been the case (and is still the case
in the draft standard) that "ends" inserts a null character but does
not flush, and "endl" inserts a newline character followed by a flush.

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