On 30 juin, 12:51, Daniel Kraft <d...@domob.eu> wrote:
> barthelemy.von.hal...@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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Thank you very much, it works. I don't know why I was so sure that
cout was a pointer...

Barth