From: Jens.Schmidt-HH@gmx.de   
      
   fmatthew5876 wrote:   
      
   > How does stdio/iostream/ handle it? Magic? Operating system hooks? Or do   
   > they often lose messages on crashes on a lot of platforms?   
      
   In C, stderr is usually set to unbuffered or at most line buffered. What is   
   not in a buffer can't be lost there.   
      
   Actually this is a tradeoff. You can't write too much logging info in this   
   case without affecting performance.   
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