[fpc-pascal] TIOStream and .Position

[Žilvinas Ledas]

Yes, I am. But I thought that it is not that logical after I found function:
---
FPos:  Int64;
---
and
---
function TIOStream.Seek(Offset: Longint; Origin: Word): Longint;
<...>
  { Try to fake seek by reading and discarding }
<...>
---
Either way, I have modified mine iostream code to return currently 
available FPos:  Int64 and now I can use Position to know how many bytes 
were read from the time I have created input stream. It is usefull as I 
am using generic TStream which in my app can be TFileStream, 
TStringStream or TIOStream and now I can use the same stream.Position 
with valid result (as long as I do not seek).

If it is intended behaviour to return -1 it is ok by me ;) I just wanted 
to check if it wasn't a bug.


Regards,
Zilvinas Ledas


Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 05 Dec 2009, at 21:42, Žilvinas Ledas wrote:
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>> is this intended behavior or it is a bug that iostream.Position always returns -1?
>>     
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> Are you reading from standard input or so? In that case it's logical that the position is always -1, since you can't seek standard input (in theory it's infinitely large).
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