Chapter 27: The Architecture of Iostreams

• 27.1 The Standard Iostreams
• 27.1.1 Type Safety
• 27.1.2 Extensibility to New Types
• 27.2 How the Standard Iostreams Work
• 27.2.1 The Iostream Layers
• 27.2.1.1 The Formatting Layer
• 27.2.1.2 The Transport Layer
• 27.2.1.3 Locales
• 27.2.2 File and In-Memory I/O
• 27.3 How the Standard Iostreams Help Solve Problems
• 27.4 The Internal Structure of the Iostreams Layers
• 27.4.1 The Internal Structure of the Formatting Layer
• 27.4.1.1 Iostreams Base Class ios_base
• 27.4.1.2 The Iostreams Character Type-Dependent Base Class
• 27.4.1.3 Character Traits
• 27.4.1.4 The Input and Output Streams
• 27.4.1.5 The File Streams
• 27.4.1.6 The String Streams
• 27.4.2 The Transport Layer's Internal Structure
• 27.4.2.1 The Stream Buffer
• 27.4.2.2 The File Buffer
• 27.4.2.3 The String Stream Buffer
• 27.4.3 Collaboration of Streams and Stream Buffers
• 27.4.4 Collaboration of Locales and Iostreams