<iostream>

[CornedBee]

Did you know that including <iostream> causes you to include a total of 38 header files
<iostream.h> on the other hand includes only 4 other headers...

And I checked, you don't need to use namespace std for <csomething> includes (the C headers).

[sail3005]

Where did you hear this?

[CornedBee]

I browsed the headers...

[Zaei]

Goodness. That's some real bloat, just to use some standad headers =).

Z.

[parksie]

Originally posted by CornedBee
Did you know that including <iostream> causes you to include a total of 38 header files
<iostream.h> on the other hand includes only 4 other headers...

And I checked, you don't need to use namespace std for <csomething> includes (the C headers).

Fair enough on the first one, but on most decent systems you'd use dynamic linking for things like that anyway (a DLL or DSO) .

For the second one...how come my headers have a namespace std { } wrapped round the include then?

Anyway, it's a moot point for the first since iostream.h is deprecated...

[CornedBee]

I don't care how many headers I have, they don't matter really for code size, the only thing that matters is the code that is included then. But DLLs solve this.

Well, here is my cstdio:

#ifndef _CSTDIO_
#define _CSTDIO_
#ifdef _STD_USING
 #undef _STD_USING
 #include <stdio.h>
 #define _STD_USING
#else
 #include <stdio.h>
#endif /* _STD_USING */
#endif /* _CSTDIO_ */ 

Nothing important removed. I wonder what the _STD_USING is, but it does not create the namespace.