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### 157. Meaningless error handling for `pword()` and `iword()`

Section: 31.5.2.6 [ios.base.storage] Status: Dup Submitter: Dietmar Kühl Opened: 1999-07-20 Last modified: 2016-01-28

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Duplicate of: 41

Discussion:

According to paragraphs 2 and 4 of 31.5.2.6 [ios.base.storage], the functions `iword()` and `pword()` "set the `badbit` (which might throw an exception)" on failure. ... but what does it mean for `ios_base` to set the `badbit`? The state facilities of the IOStream library are defined in `basic_ios`, a derived class! It would be possible to attempt a down cast but then it would be necessary to know the character type used...

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