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How do I flush the input stream?

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Re: How do I flush the input stream?

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May 22nd, 2008
works great for windows. I saved it as ignoreline.h and use it as an include.

Doesn't work in linux. Anyone know why?

Compile time error message:

 clearTheStream.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
clearTheStream.cpp:24: error: ambiguous overload for ‘operator>>’ in ‘std::cin >> pause()’
/usr/include/c++/4.2/istream:131: note: candidates are: std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator>>(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>& (*)(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>&)) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.2/istream:135: note:                 std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator>>(std::basic_ios<_CharT, _Traits>& (*)(std::basic_ios<_CharT, _Traits>&)) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.2/istream:142: note:                 std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator>>(std::ios_base& (*)(std::ios_base&)) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.2/istream:250: note:                 std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>::operator>>(std::basic_streambuf<_CharT, _Traits>*) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.2/backward/ignoreline.h:54: note:                 std::basic_istream<CharT, std::char_traits<_CharT> >& operator>>(std::basic_istream<CharT, std::char_traits<_CharT> >&, const ignoreline&) [with CharT = char]
/usr/include/c++/4.2/backward/ignoreline.h:72: note:                 std::basic_istream<CharT, std::char_traits<_CharT> >& operator>>(std::basic_istream<CharT, std::char_traits<_CharT> >&, const pause&) [with CharT = char]

What is abiguous overload? And is there a known bug with istream in linux?
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