[iostreams.limits.pos]

The classes of [input.output] with template arguments charT and traits behave as described if traits::pos_type and traits::off_type are streampos and streamoff respectively.

Except as noted explicitly below, their behavior when traits::pos_type and traits::off_type are other types is implementation-defined.

[Note 1:

For each of the specializations of char_traits defined in [char.traits.specializations], state_type denotes mbstate_t, pos_type denotes fpos<mbstate_t>, and off_type denotes streamoff.

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In the classes of [input.output], a template parameter with name charT represents a member of the set of types containing char, wchar_t, and any other implementation-defined character container types ([defns.character.container]) that meet the requirements for a character on which any of the iostream components can be instantiated.