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Console buffer handle
void RedirectIOToConsole() {
//Create a console for this application
AllocConsole();
// Get STDOUT handle
HANDLE ConsoleOutput = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
int SystemOutput = _open_osfhandle(intptr_t(ConsoleOutput), _O_TEXT);
FILE *COutputHandle = _fdopen(SystemOutput, "w");
// Get STDERR handle
HANDLE ConsoleError = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
int SystemError = _open_osfhandle(intptr_t(ConsoleError), _O_TEXT);
FILE *CErrorHandle = _fdopen(SystemError, "w");
// Get STDIN handle
HANDLE ConsoleInput = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
int SystemInput = _open_osfhandle(intptr_t(ConsoleInput), _O_TEXT);
FILE *CInputHandle = _fdopen(SystemInput, "r");
//make cout, wcout, cin, wcin, wcerr, cerr, wclog and clog point to console as well
std::ios::sync_with_stdio(true);
// Redirect the CRT standard input, output, and error handles to the console
freopen_s(&CInputHandle, "CONIN$", "r", stdin);
freopen_s(&COutputHandle, "CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
freopen_s(&CErrorHandle, "CONOUT$", "w", stderr);
//Clear the error state for each of the C++ standard stream objects. We need to do this, as
//attempts to access the standard streams before they refer to a valid target will cause the
//iostream objects to enter an error state. In versions of Visual Studio after 2005, this seems
//to always occur during startup regardless of whether anything has been read from or written to
//the console or not.
std::wcout.clear();
std::cout.clear();
std::wcerr.clear();
std::cerr.clear();
std::wcin.clear();
std::cin.clear();
// test CrtDbg output
_CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_ASSERT, _CRTDBG_MODE_FILE);
_CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_ASSERT, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDERR);
_CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_ERROR, _CRTDBG_MODE_FILE);
_CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_ERROR, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDERR);
_CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_MODE_FILE);
_CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDERR);
_RPT0(_CRT_WARN, "This is testing _CRT_WARN output\n");
_RPT0(_CRT_ERROR, "This is testing _CRT_ERROR output\n");
_ASSERT(0 && "testing _ASSERT");
_ASSERTE(0 && "testing _ASSERTE");
}
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