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| author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-08-23 21:53:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-08-23 21:53:47 +0000 |
| commit | 983c592272eb59d39fd78c515e1f2701638879e0 (patch) | |
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disuade people from using ostream.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@79866 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/CodingStandards.html b/docs/CodingStandards.html index ff707f3a84..894521650a 100644 --- a/docs/CodingStandards.html +++ b/docs/CodingStandards.html @@ -990,12 +990,14 @@ library. There are two problems with this:</p> </ol> <p>Note that using the other stream headers (<tt><sstream></tt> for -example) is allowed normally, it is just <tt><iostream></tt> that is -causing problems.</p> - -<p>In addition, new code should always -use <a href="#ll_raw_ostream"><tt>raw_ostream</tt></a> or -the <tt>llvm::MemoryBuffer</tt> API (for reading in files).</p> +example) is not problematic in this regard (just <tt><iostream></tt>). +However, raw_ostream provides various APIs that are better performing for almost +every use than std::ostream style APIs, so you should just use it for new +code.</p> + +<p><b>New code should always +use <a href="#ll_raw_ostream"><tt>raw_ostream</tt></a> for writing, or +the <tt>llvm::MemoryBuffer</tt> API for reading files.</b></p> </div> |