How does the standard currently deal with seeking in a stream?

It used to be using the seekoff function on  a streamoff object.

I've noticed that language implementations use seekg and seekp
on the stream itself.

What's the current state of the standard?

Ray Swartz

In article liu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU, ray@cse.ucsc.edu (Ray Swartz) writes:
>How does the standard currently deal with seeking in a stream?
>
>It used to be using the seekoff function on  a streamoff object.
>
>I've noticed that language implementations use seekg and seekp
>on the stream itself.
>
>What's the current state of the standard?

The IOstream portion of the Commitee working paper is not yet stable.

If you write code that uses the streamoff and streampos types, and
doesn't assume they are numeric types, it will probably continue to
work. Seeking should work in about the same way.
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