barthelemy.von.haller@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to return the standard output from a method like that :
>
> ostream *XXX::GetDebugStream() {
> // return debugFile; // I don't want that, but it works
> // return stdout; // this returns : error: cannot convert
> `_IO_FILE*' to `std:stream*' in return
> // return cout; // this returns : invalid conversion from
> `void*' to `std:stream*'
> }
>
> I tried to return stdout or cout but it doesn't work. I understand why
> it doesn't work with cout but not with stdout.

try
return &cout;

cout is not a pointer, thus you will have to take the address of it; and
stdout is not a C++ ostream class but rather a FILE* you can use with
fprintf and friends.

Daniel

> Could someone explain me what I am doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Barth


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