C++ Difference between endl; and \n

Answer 1

endl flushes the buffer, where \n does not. Otherwise, they are the same.

endl is good, because if the program crashes, your stuff gets printed. BUT, there is a performance hit with endl.

Answer 2

dupe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/213907/c-stdendl-vs-n

Answer 3

endl is a manipulator that inserts a new-line character. Additionally, for buffered streams, endl flushes the buffer (i.e. writes all unwritten characters in the buffer to the output sequence, see ostream::flush).

And '\n' is actually a new-line character.