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Put this input stream in an invalid state. This function has no effect if this stream is already invalid. Note that this function should be called whenever a value extracted from this stream is determined to be invalid, inconsistent, or otherwise incorrect.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslx_byteinstream.h>`

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void
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