Re: egcs-2.93.08 19990215 sparc-sun-solaris2.5 bootstrap fails (genrecog)

[Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:39:20 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message <199902190112.UAA04415@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>you write:
>  > It appears to work, now the build breaks in libstdc++:
>[ ... ]
>Yea.  Probably a result of this changes:
>
>1999-01-28  Baron Roberts  <baron@sgi.com>
>
>        * string: Uncomment wstring declaration.
>
>        * std/straits.h: Remove #if 0/#endif from around
>        struct string_char_traits <wchar_t>.
>        #include <cwchar>.
>        Add missing definition for wchar_t move method.
>        Add empty() method for trait-based empty string return.
>
>        * std/bastring.h (c_str): Change return of "" to return of
>        traits::empty() call so that proper empty string is returned
>        based on the character type (i.e. "" or L"").

This is going to be much harder to fix.  We want wide string support
in libstdc++, but the wmem* functions are C9x and I haven't seen them
anywhere except glibc.  I don't know from wide strings - anyone know a
decent fallback?

zw