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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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

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