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cout, cerr and clog in HL

Does anybody know if Half-life is using these standard streams ? (cout, cerr and clog)

I'm asking because I want to redirect them to files and use them for logging and debuging purposes in my bot.
If HL used them, I could cause mess by redirecting them.

Also If someone is interested in redirecting, heres how it works :

Code:

#include <iostream>

#include <fstream>



using namespace std;



int main()

{

        clog << "Output to screen" << endl;



        ofstream mFile;

        streambuf *oldbuf=clog.rdbuf();



        mFile.open("filename.log");

        if(mFile) {

                if(mFile.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(NULL,4096)==false)

                        cerr << "error : cannot resize file buffer for clog" << endl;

                clog.rdbuf(mFile.rdbuf());

        }



        clog << "Output to file" << endl;



        // ...



        clog.flush();

        clog.rdbuf(oldbuf);

        mFile.close();

        clog << "Output back to screen" << endl;

        return 0;

}

Re: cout, cerr and clog in HL

stdout (and hence cout in C++) is used by the old retail Half-Life dedicated server, but you should still be able to redirect stdout (or cout) to a file.

Steam may or may not use stdout for the server console. I would guess that all of the engine output stuff is now routed to Steam I/O code which would get sent to the Steam GUI instead of the applications standard I/O stream.

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