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2703. No provision for fill-padding when boolalpha is set

Section: 30.4.3.3.3 [facet.num.put.virtuals] Status: New Submitter: Hubert Tong Opened: 2016-05-07 Last modified: 2018-02-11

Priority: 3

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Discussion:

N4582 subclause 30.4.3.3.3 [facet.num.put.virtuals] paragraph 6 makes no provision for fill-padding in its specification of the behaviour when (str.flags() & ios_base::boolalpha) != 0.

[2017-07-06, Marshall comments]

All the other cases from num_put — int, long, etc all are covered in 30.4.3.3.3 [facet.num.put.virtuals] p1 .. p5, which describe how to align and pad the output. (Specifically, stage 3) p6 does not.

With this description:

cout << std::setw(15) << false;

outputs:

              0
﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎﹎// Column counter

but

cout << std::setw(15) << boolalpha << false;

outputs:

false

libc++ implements this exactly.
Dinkumware, libstdc++ and MSVC apply padding and alignment.

I think that applying padding and alignment is more appropriate.

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