From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Resetting IOS Flags
Date: 27 Aug 2003 11:25:58 GMT
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MMarkHinchcliffe <mmarkhinchcliffe AT aol DOT com> wrote:
> I've tried unsigned long, int & unsigned int already. 'setf' is supposed to
> return a type long value so I can't see why the compiler should complain.

The actual error message is not about the return value, but rather
about passing your saved status back in as argument number one.  Odds
are you'll have to use some special type defined for this by the
<iostreams> classes.
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