Hi.
If stdin and stdout are file streams shouldn't they be closed after their use?
I know C++ treats IO streams like objects and therefore they can be closed automatically when their destructors are called (given the programmer closes them in the definition of the destructor).. but I am not sure if it's necessary to close them in the first place, because obviously a destructor call is not possible in C.
These two files along with the stderr file are automatically closed when the program terminates. And no it is not necessary for you to close these files.If stdin and stdout are file streams shouldn't they be closed after their use?
Jim
As a general rule, whatever code is responsible for allocating resources (e.g. opening file/stream/socket, allocating memory, etc) should be responsible for freeing it as well. That helps avoid resource leaks. Thus, whatever code is responsible for opening the streams should be responsible for closing it. There is typically code that runs before your main function that opens stdin/stdout for you, and there is code that runs after main that closes them. This is usually put in place automatically by the compiler, so you don't have to worry about it.
All right. Thank you all.
