Re: stdin ? stdin ? What's wrong with stdin?

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From: Frank Hickman [MVP] (fhickman_NOSP_at_M_noblesoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:03:19 -0500

"Norman Bullen" <norm@BlackKittenAssociates.com.INVALID> wrote in message
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> Frank Hickman [MVP] wrote:
>>
>>
>> stdin, stdout and stderr are FILE* streams that are created and opened
>> when the CRT initializes a console application, they are not macros.
>> Have you included the proper header file in the module that is reporting
>> this?
>>
>>
>>
> Actually, stdin, stdout, and stderr ARE macro.
>
> #define stdin (&_iob[0])
> #define stdout (&_iob[1])
> #define stderr (&_iob[2])
>
> Macro expansion results in an expression that is a FILE * but the names
> stdin, etc. are not visible in the debugger because they are macros.
>
> Norm
>
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DOH! That's what I get for assuming... 

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