BloombergLP::bdlsb::FixedMemOutStreamBuf::seekpos

Set the put position to an absolute position.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlsb_fixedmemoutstreambuf.h>

virtual
pos_type
seekpos(
    pos_type position,
    std::ios_base::openmode which = bsl::ios_base::out) override;

Description

Set the position indicator to the specified position and return the resulting absolute position on success or pos_type(-1) on failure. Optionally specify which area of the stream buffer. The seekpos operation will fail if which does not include the flag bsl::ios_base::out or if position is less then zero or greater than the value returned by length.

Return Value

resulting absolute position, or pos_type(-1) on failure

Parameters

NameDescription
positionabsolute position for the position indicator
whicharea of the stream buffer; must include out