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[–] ulterno 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Simple. \n when you just want a newline.
endl when you need to flush at the moment.

Useful in case you are printing a debug output right before some function that might do bed stuff to buffers.


Edit: I wrote println instead of endl somehow. Guess I need more downtime

[–] embed_me 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I only program in C. I was under the assumption that \n also flushes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It depends on whether you are printing to a terminal or to a file (and yes the terminal is also a file), and even then you can control the flushing behaviour using something like unbuffer

[–] ulterno 2 points 1 week ago

I remember having to fflush a couple of times.