Why are the standard header files in C++ so non-standard? Particularly iostream seems to be the most dialectal. Enough to make the whole language a mess to work with!
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They are standard and well defined.>Particularly iostream seems to be the most dialectal.
Any compiler is allowed to provide non-standard extensions. Any issues you have with extensions are your problem.
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