RE: [Dev-C++] Is there a "garbage" stream?

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> Of Scott Williams
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:27 PM
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> Subject: [Dev-C++] Is there a "garbage" stream?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here's my problem.  I have C code that does a bunch of number 
> crunching,
> spitting out intermediate results to the output files along the way.
> However, in some applications, it would be preferable to NOT 
> write any data
> to output files (e.g., when the program is run iteratively in 
> an nonlinear
> optimization routine).
> 
> Rather than hunt through my code to find all the instances of 
> fprintf(fpout,
> ...) and insert a conditional statement, it would be much easier (and
> cleaner) if I could simply initialize the file pointer to a 
> stream going
> nowhere.
> 
> I've tried setting fpout = NULL but that doesn't work.  Any 
> suggestions?


There is not in standard C. However an implementation may provide one as
a system extension. Also you can use a predefined one like stdout or
stderr (so as to not write to a file).


Ioannis Vranos
 
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