What does it mean to write to stdout in C?

Question

Does a program that writes to \"stdout\" write to a file? the screen? I don\'t understand what it means to write to stdout.

Answer 1

stdout is the standard output file stream. Obviously, it's first and default pointer to output is the screen, however you can point it to a file as desired!

Please read:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/stdout/

C++ is very similar to C however, object oriented.