Document: N 1823

Proposal for N1720, DR438

Committee discussion

• The Standard is correct as written because the intent is that the specified file position indicator is an intermediate state inside the file positioning function after the pushed-back characters are discarded but before the actual seek. That gives you a reliable file position from which to do the seek. It’s not intended that the file positioning function doesn’t set the file position indicator.

Proposed Technical Corrigendum

Note that a file positioning function may further modify the file position indicator after discarding any pushed-back characters.

Note that a file positioning function may further modify the file position indicator after discarding any pushed-back wide characters.