Fix inconsistent behavior in basic_ostream::seekp () and basic_istream::seekg ()

[Marshall Clow]

On Oct 21, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Basically, each of these have two methods:
> 
> 	basic_ostream<charT,traits>& seekp(pos_type pos);
> 	basic_ostream<charT,traits>& seekp(off_type off, ios_base::seekdir dir);
> 
> and one sets the failure bit of the stream on failure, and the other does not.
> [ Note that the standard requires us to set the failure bit on the first call, and is silent on the second. I have opened an LWG issue to resolve this. ]
> Make the second version set the failbit, and add tests.
> 
> Also, the ostream calls were lacking a sentry object.
> 
> For basic_istream, there were two calls, as well:
> 
> 	basic_istream<charT,traits>& seekg(pos_type pos);
> 	basic_istream<charT,traits>& seekg(off_type off, ios_base::seekdir dir);
> 
> and they are both specified to set the failbit on failure, and only the first one did.
> Fix that, and add a test to be sure.

Howard pointed out an unnecessary test in the ostream code.
Fixed that.
The LWG issue referred to above is: http://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/lwg-active.html#2341

-- Marshall

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